In an unprecedented case, a Belgian lawyer says her country's United Nations peacekeeping troops are responsible for the deaths of thousands of Tutsi civilians who had sought shelter in a school the soldiers abandoned during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
This comes at the height of a pertinent trial in which the central question is whether the UN is responsible for the mass murders that took place in Rwanda in 1994, or if it is solely the national UN peacekeepers deployed there that are accountable.
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