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

• Superior document: International and comparative criminal law series
• Author: Grünfeld, Fred, 1949-
• TeilnehmendeR: Huijboom, Anke.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International and comparative criminal law series.
• Physical Description: xxix, 299 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume is about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking are scrutinized, id est, who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that this genocide could have been prevented. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

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.