United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
Once they saw what was happening in Rwanda, the UNAMIR Commander, Roméo Dallaire, and Belgian peacekeepers asked the Security Council to give them more power and soldiers to stop the killings.  However, the United Nations member countries refused to change these rules for UNAMIR.  They and other world leaders talked about the genocide as 'just another ethnic conflict' and said these types of things would always go on in Africa.