The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda : the role of bystanders /

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

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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. peac...

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Superior document:International and comparative criminal law series
:
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
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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.

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