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Destexhe, Alain.

Rwanda and genocide in the twentieth century / Alain Destexhe ; translated by Alison Marschner ; foreword by William Shawcross. - London : Pluto Press, 1995. - x, 92 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm

Translation of: Rwanda, essai sur le genocide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-88) and index.

The unlearned lesson of history -- Three genocides in the twentieth century -- The Hutu and the Tutsi -- From indifference to compassion -- Justice must be done -- Appendix 1. Convention on the prevention and the punishment of the crime of genocide -- Appendix 2. Chronology.

Why was the world so slow to react to the genocide in Rwanda? This book argues that the delay in providing humanitarian aid was a refusal on the part of the international community to recognise the singularity of the exceptional crime of genocide.


Translation of: Rwanda, essai sur le genocide.

ISBN: 0745310427 9780745310428 0745310419 9780745310411

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9636163 bnb GB95T1020 bnb GB96-36163

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 009445889 Uk

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1994

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genocide--Rwanda.
Humanitarian intervention.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994.
Rwanda--Histoire--1994 (Guerre civile)
Rwanda.
Ruanda
Rwanda--Politics and government.

Subjects--Index Terms: Genocide Rwanda

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: DT450.435 / D45