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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810207803321

Autore

Kuperman Alan J

Titolo

The limits of humanitarian intervention : genocide in Rwanda / / Alan J. Kuperman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8157-9877-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 162 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

967.57104

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Tutsi (African people) - Crimes against - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Hutu (African people) - Rwanda - Politics and government - 20th century

Humanitarian intervention - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Atrocities

Rwanda Ethnic relations

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. 129-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The common wisdom -- Roots of the Rwandan tragedy -- Mechanics of the genocide -- When did we know? -- The military scene -- Transporting intervention forces -- Plausible interventions -- Contending claims -- Early warning and preventive intervention -- Lessons -- Appendixes -- A model of the genocide's progression -- Airlift in some previous U.S. military interventions -- Theater airfield capacity based on operation support hope.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsi -- some three-quarters of their population -- while UN peacekeepers were withdrawn and the rest of the world stood aside. Ever since, it has been argued that a small military intervention could have prevented most of the killing. In The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention, Alan J. Kuperman exposes such conventional wisdom as myth. Combining unprecedented analyses of the genocide's progression and the logistical limitations of humanitarian military intervention, Kuperman reaches a startling conclusion: even if Western leaders had ordered an



intervention as soon as they became aware of a nationwide genocide in Rwanda, the intervention forces would have arrived too late to save more than a quarter of the 500,000 Tutsi ultimately killed. Serving as a cautionary message about the limits of humanitarian intervention, the book's concluding chapters address lessons for the future.