As we mostly know, from April to July of 1994, the Hutu majority government in Rwanda, combined with several Hutu-Supremacist terrorist groups, engaged in a genocide against the Tutsi Minority (as well as moderate Hutus) resulting in the deaths of almost a Million people.
The UN peacekeepers in the area, called UNAMIR, were forbidden by Chapter VI of the UN Mandate (which forbids military action by the UN unless absolutely necessary) from intervening, and were more or less forced to watch helpless as hundreds of thousands were killed.
In this alternate timeline, in early April, as the genocide begins to kick off, General Dellaire (who was in charge of UNAMIR) decides, recognizing he will never forgive himself if he lets the genocide happen, decides to defy Chapter VI convinces the men under his command to go on the offensive against the perpetrators of the genocide.
While I am under no illusions they could have saved everyone (or even most people) due to their small size, I want to at least establish 3 things.
How effective would this had been in saving Tutsi lives, and how many UNAMIR lives would it take for it to happen?
How would the UN itself react to UNAMIR going rouge? Would they court martial any surviving Peacekeepers afterwards?
Would this, in the long term, cause a more aggressive shift in the UN’s Peacekeeper Policy?