 Partly as a result of the Somali incident, the U.S. government chose not to heed Bushnell's recommendations, and on the next day, April 7, the Rwandan genocide began when several Tutsi government officials and moderate Hutu Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana were killed by Hutu militias.Bushnell began calling Rwandan military officials in an attempt to persuade them to cease the slaughter.Without a military commitment, however, her pleas for a stop to the violence fell on deaf ears.