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.