The United Nations Security Council authorized, through its resolution 929 of June 22, 1994 adopted under Chapter VII and on the initiative of France, a so-called humanitarian operation which can use force on the ground.
This humanitarian operation is also called Operation Turquoise
‘Archives show French complicity in Rwandan genocide’
Researcher says French government supported Hutus during and after 1994 genocide, which took lives of some 800,000 Tutsis