The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda : the role of bystanders / / Fred Grunfeld, Anke Huijboom.

• Superior document: International and comparative criminal law series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Grunfeld, Fred, 1949-
• TeilnehmendeR: Huijboom, Anke.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: International and comparative criminal law series.
• Physical Description: xxix, 299 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Early warnings and early action by bystanders -- The tribunal's interpretation and implementation of the genocide convention -- Rwandan history -- Undermining UNAMIR -- The installment of UNAMIR with Belgian participation -- Early warning of atrocities in 1991-1994 -- Early warnings from November to January -- The genocide fax and the prohibition from U.N. headquarters to act -- The negative response of New York and capitals in the west to the deteriorating situation -- Deteriorating security in Rwanda and the negative response from New York from January up until March -- Requests from Dallaire and from Belgium to New York for a stronger and firmer broadened mandate for UNAMIR -- UNAMIR : its mandate and the offending Belgian role -- The start of the genocide -- Evacuation -- Belgian decision to withdraw its troops -- The response of the Security Council -- The role of the Netherlands throughout the genocide -- Apologies from bystanders ten years later.