When the genocide in Rwanda began on April 6 , 1994 , Steć was one of the first UN officers ( with Polish Major Marek Pazik , Canadian Major Brent Beardsley and a three-man Bangladesh crew ) who , called upon by two other Polish UNAMIR officers , Majors Jerzy Mączka and Ryszard Chudy , arrived by Czech armoured personnel carrier to the location of a massacre in Gikondo , the first discovered by UNAMIR . Steć filmed the bodies with his camcorder in order to secure the proof of a possible genocide and was the first UNAMIR officer to use this word . As noted later " we were explicitly forbidden to use the word genocide in our correspondence to New York " . Massacres like the one in Gikondo would become commonplace . " We had a well-organised genocide rolling through the country "
genocide in Rwanda
Rwandan genocide
Stefan Stec (UN peacekeeper)