Keating said later, ‘We only dimly perceived the steady deterioration. The deeper and more dangerous problem of a monumental threat to human life was ignored.’13 With better information, the Council might have proceeded quite differently, he said. Instead, it proceeded on the assumption that the various parties in Rwanda really wanted peace. Keating added, ‘But now we know that the opposite was the case. The hard-line Hutu did not want peace and they had access to a privileged insider’s view of the discussions in the Council.’
