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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160268203321

Titolo

Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings : The Rwandan Experience / / Jean-Herve Bradol and Marc Le Pape

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-0832-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Humanitarianism : key debates and new approaches

Disciplina

362.1097284

Soggetti

Refugees

Humanitarian assistance

Genocide

Civil war

Electronic books.

Rwanda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : through the eyes of field teams' members -- From the persecution of Kinyarwanda speakers in Uganda to the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis -- Rwandan refugee camps in Tanzania and Zaire 1994-95 -- The new Rwanda -- Refugees on the run in war-torn Zaire 1996-97 -- Epilogue : the effectiveness of aid in the face of repeated mass atrocities

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) faced the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. One of the authors, a doctor, participated in MSF's Rwandan operations during the 1990s. The other, a sociologist, has been an assiduous researcher into humanitarian action and its context since 1994