Operation Support Hope was a 1994 United States military effort to provide immediate relief for the refugees of the Rwandan genocide and allow a smooth transition to a full United Nations humanitarian management program . The inhabitants of the camp consisted of approximately two million Hutus , participants in the genocide , and the bystanders , who had fled Rwanda as the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country . On July 22 , 1994 President Clinton announced Operation Support Hope . Two days later , American joint task forces were airlifted to Goma , Zaire ; Kigali , Rwanda ; Entebbe , Uganda ; and Mombasa , Kenya . US Air Force liaison officers were assigned to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) 's air operations cell in Geneva and assigned to joint logistics cells and civil-military operations centers in the field
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Operation Support Hope