Kigali, April 1994, as the genocide breaks out, more than 2,000 Tutsi civilians take refuge in the grounds of the Ecole Technique Officielle, the base for two platoons of the Belgian Para-Commando Regiment of the United Nations Assistance ...See moreKigali, April 1994, as the genocide breaks out, more than 2,000 Tutsi civilians take refuge in the grounds of the Ecole Technique Officielle, the base for two platoons of the Belgian Para-Commando Regiment of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). The UN flag and blue helmets prevented the Hutu killers from entering the school grounds. Four days later, the Belgian soldiers were ordered to leave. They abandoned the civilians, who were massacred. Fewer than 70 survived. This tragedy raises an essential question: should the military have a duty of disobedience in the face of a manifestly illegal order?
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