Eyewitness to a genocide : the United Nations and Rwanda / Michael Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Michael N., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Rwanda.

United Nations Rwanda.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.

History.

Atrocities.

Rwanda--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firsthand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.

Contents:

Introduction: Depraved indifference?

1: It was a very good year

2: Rwanda through rose-colored glasses

3: "If this is an easy operation ..."

4: The fog of genocide

5: Diplomatic games

6: The hunt for moral responsibility

Brief chronology of Rwandan conflict

Selected chronology of United Nations' Security Agenda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-208) and index.

ISBN:

0801438837

OCLC:

47971571