A people betrayed the role of the west in Rwanda's genocide / Linda Melvern.

Author/creator Melvern, Linda
Format Book
EditionNew updated ed.
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Descriptionvii, 370 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Genocide--Rwanda.
Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994.
Human rights--Rwanda.
Rwanda--Ethnic relations.
Rwanda--History. --Civil War, 1994. --Atrocities.
Rwanda--Foreign relations.

Contents Genocide, April 1994 -- The past is prologue : Rwanda 1894-1973 -- The Rwandan patriotic front -- Akazu : the oligarchy ruling Rwanda -- Peace in Rwanda? The Arusha Accords -- Preparing the genocide -- The hate radio : Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines -- New world order and high hopes for a UN success -- Peacekeepers : the UN arrives -- Peacekeepers in trouble : February-April 1994 -- The UN Security Council : 5 April 1994 -- Four days in Kigali : 6-9 April 1994 -- The genocide exposed -- The secret meetings of the Security Council -- Genocide spreads -- The world shuts the door -- For valour -- Starting from zero : 18 July 1994 -- The genocide convention.
Abstract Melvern reveals how the great powers failed to heed the warnings of the coming catastrophe, and refused to recognise it when, in 1994, up to one million people were killed in Rwanda in a deliberate, public and political campaign.
General notePrevious ed.: 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-354) and index.
ISBN9781848132443 (hbk.)
ISBN1848132441 (hbk.)
ISBN9781848132450 (pbk.)
ISBN184813245X (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DT450.435 .M426 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold