While most governments were loath to share their secrets, at the UN Secretariat I was allowed access by Kofi Annan, then head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping, to the files of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). It was a privilege in 2014 to have been given by Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire his own archive from Kigali – his diaries, cables and sitreps from October 1993, when he arrived in Rwanda until he left in August the following year.
