The other is Louise Mushikiwabo, sister of Lando Ndaswinga, the only Tutsi member of a Hutu-dominated government, who was shot dead along with their mother and his wife and two children. The women say the UN soldiers who were assigned to protect them either ran away or handed their families over to murderous Hutu militia. Kavaruganda says the Ghanaian UN soldiers who were supposed to protect her and her family were drinking and socialising with the Hutus while she and her children were being tortured. Mushikiwabo says the UN protecters simply ran away when their killers came. But officials with authority to act had failed to give warning to a person they knew to be in imminent danger, she said.
Bodies litter the streets and pose a significant health hazard.
It was received in New York three days before the UN Security Council met to consider what to do about Rwanda, but its contents were never given to the Security Council.