A People Betrayed; The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide

by Linda Melvern

• ISBN13: 9781856498319
• ISBN10: 185649831X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-18
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

In 1994 up to one million people were killed in Rwanda in a deliberate, public and political campaign. For five years, Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this great crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. The new and startling information this book contains has the making of an international scandal. Melvern reveals how the great powers failed to heed the warnings of the coming catastrophe, andrefused to recognize the genocide when it began, ignoring obligations under international law, specifically the genocide convention. A set of secret documents leaked to the author from within the Security Council proves that the circumstances of the genocide were suppressed or ignored.

Author Biography

Linda Melvern is an investigative journalist and writer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Genocide, April 1994	1	(6)
The Past is Prologue: Rwanda 1894-1973	7	(17)
The Involvement of France, Egypt and Uganda	24	(15)
Akazu: The Oligarchy Ruling Rwanda	39	(13)
Peace in Rwanda? The Arusha Accords	52	(9)
Preparing the Genocide	61	(9)
The Hate Radio: Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines	70	(4)
The New World Order and High Hopes for a UN Success	74	(8)
Peacekeepers: the UN Arrives	82	(17)
Peacekeepers in Trouble: February-April 1994	99	(12)
The UN Security Council: 5 April 1994	111	(4)
Four Days in Kigali: 6-9 April 1994	115	(22)
The Genocide Exposed	137	(15)
The Secret Meetings of the Security Council	152	(16)
Genocide Spreads	168	(18)
The World Shuts the Door	186	(24)
For Valour	210	(12)
Starting from Zero: 18 July 1994	222	(5)
The Genocide Convention	227	(12)
Chronology	239	(10)
Appendix 1 Background to the Genocide Convention	249	(2)
Appendix 2 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948	251	(5)
Sources	256	(9)
Index	265