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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grünfeld, Fred, 1949-

Contributor:

Huijboom, Anke.

Series:

International and comparative criminal law series.

International and comparative criminal law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Prevention.

Genocide.

Humanitarian intervention.

International agencies.

Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xxix, 299 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-60195-4

9786612601958

90-474-3131-6

OCLC:

654851286

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004157811.i-299 DOI