Abstract
Last week, Kofi Annan expressed "deep remorse" for the UN's shortcomings in Rwanda five years ago, after an independent report offered a damning assessment of the organization's failure to even attempt to stop the genocide of the Tutsi. The UN Secretary General, who was head of UN peacekeeping in 1994, has not been spared. The report accuses him of having ignored repeated warnings that genocide was in preparation. He also condemns members of the Security Council, including Britain but mainly the United States, for blocking calls for rapid intervention.