It can also authorize military action as well as peacekeeping and sanctions functions. The United Nations Security Council has five members from different states, capable of making decisions. These members are the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Russia and France. Besides these members, the Security Council also has 10 members who, unlike the five states, are not permanent and each has a two-year term. Over the years, it has been argued that the United Nations Security Council has the right and authority to intervene in cases of serious human rights violations within United Nations states. Although the unfortunate Rawanda genocide turned out not to be the case. The Rawanda genocide occurred in 1994 and resulted in the massacre of 800,000 Rawanda people over a 100-day period from April to June. It was recorded that the majority of those killed belonged to the Tutis Rawandan group and the people who killed them belonged to the Hutu group. These two ethnic groups have been at odds for a long time and after President Rawanda, who was part of the Hutu group, came to power, the genocide took place. An official report produced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan found that an inadequate commission for a UN peacekeeping mission in Rawanda was doomed to failure and was subsequently rejected by the UN Security Council.