The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda the role of bystanders /

Main Author: Grθunfeld, Fred, 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Huijboom, Anke.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, c2007.
Series:International and comparative criminal law series
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10372741
Table of Contents:
  • 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.