The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda: The Role of Bystanders (International and Comparative Criminal Law Series, 23) - Hardcover

Grünfeld, Fred; Huijboom, Anke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004157816 ISBN 13: 9789004157811

Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff, 2007

Synopsis

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, i.e., 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004157816
• ISBN 13: 9789004157811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330