The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda [[electronic resource] ] : the role of bystanders / / Fred Grünfeld, Anke Huijboom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792357503321
• Autore: Grünfeld Fred <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-60195-4; 9786612601958; 90-474-3131-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxix, 299 p. : ill
• Collana: International and comparative criminal law series
• Altri autori (Persone): HuijboomAnke
• Disciplina: 967.57104/31
• Soggetti: Genocide - Prevention; Humanitarian intervention; International agencies; Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.