[Enterprise]

"one or two UNARMED UN guards saved buildings-full of Tutsis by simply informing bands of unarmed Hutus that they couldn't come in and kill the people under their watch."

That almost sounds like a Monty Python scenario.

"I'm sorry, but you simply can't come in and start killing people on our watch. It's not in our contract. Now go away."

[VOA]

That almost sounds like a Monty Python scenario.

It certainly did.
But, aside from the cowardice of Kofi Annan, Clinton, Albright, Clarke, etc.,
these unarmed guards must have had nerves of steel...facing off gangs
of murderers (many drunk) armed with machetes, hatchets and guns.

The PBS FrontLine show also did a good job talking about a Seventh-Day Adventist aid
worker (Wilkens) who was the ONLY American to ride out the genocide in Kigali, as well as
the story of a UN-Senaglese soldier who covertly (and against UN orders) smuggled
lots of Tutsis to safety...until he was killed by smoe stray morar shrapnel.

I highly recommend the PBS FrontLine special -- a masterpiece in documenting
real-life profiles in courage AND cowardice.