Rwandan villains

John Bellew, (Letters, April 8) rightly commends Canadian General Romeo Dallaire for his courageous actions during the Rwandan massacre.

Having spent 32 years with United Nations’ Military Peacekeeping Operations (I was in Liberia during the Rwanda tragedy) while the Tutsis were the villains on the ground, the other villains were the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, ie US, UK, France, Russia and China, who failed/refused to take appropriate action to support General Dallaire.

Michael A Moriarty