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The '''United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda''' ('''UNOMUR''') was a [[peacekeeping]] mission established by the [[United Nations Security Council]] in [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 846|Resolution 846]] and lasted from June 1993 to September 1994. Its mission was "to monitor the border between Uganda and Rwanda and verify that no military assistance was being provided across it". It was based in [[Kabale]], [[Uganda]] and its mandate thus covered 193 miles of border. Countires contributing to UNOMUR included Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Hungary, the Netherlands, Senegal, Slovakia and Zimbabwe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/sites/medals/unomur.htm|title=UNITED NATIONS OBSERVER MISSION -UGANDA-RWANDA|publisher=United Nations}}</ref>
Its chief military observer from June to October 1993 was Brigadier-General [[Roméo Dallaire]] of [[Canada]], who later gained fame as Force Commander of the [[United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda]] during the [[Rwandan Genocide]]. Dallaire arrived in Uganda in early October 1993, where the liaison officer from the [[National Resistance Army]] (NRA) informed him he must be informed of all UNOMUR patrols at least twelve hours in advance and that all patrols would have NRA escorts. When Dallaire protested that the whole point of the Mission was to discover suspicious activity through the element of surprise, the NRA officer insisted. Also despite the fact that Uganda had agreed that the area of verification would range 100 km inside the Ugandan border, which included the transport hub of [[Mbarara]], the NRA insisted on a 20 km limit, putting Mbarara off limits.<ref name=Dallaire93-96>[[Roméo Dallaire|Dallaire, Roméo]]
Dallaire noted,
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