One Hundred Days of Silence

by Cohen, Jared A.

• ISBN13: 9780742552364
• ISBN10: 0742552365
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

In the spring of 1994, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and Moderate Hutus were killed in a horrific genocide. One Hundred Days of Silence is a scathing look at the challenges of humanitarian intervention, the history of U.S. policy toward the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the role of genocide in the larger context of strategic studies. It looks at the principal questions of what the U.S. knew, and why it didn't intervene, and how non-intervention was justified within the American bureaucracy.

Table of Contents

Missed opportunities	p. 17
The "Somalia hangover" : peacekeeping reformed	p. 47
The "dangerous spring of 1994"	p. 59
Getting out	p. 71
A bureaucratic nightmare	p. 95
Calling it genocide	p. 129
Too little, too late	p. 145
Wrong actions : what the United States should have done	p. 175
Chronology of U.S. policy toward Rwanda	p. 185
List of key interviews	p. 193
Flow chart of Rwanda decision-making process	p. 195
1948 Genocide Convention	p. 199
UN charter, chapter VI	p. 203
Clinton's 1998 apology in Rwanda	p. 207
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