TY - BOOK AU - Destexhe,Alain TI - Rwanda and genocide in the twentieth century SN - 0745310427 AV - DT450.435 D45 PY - 1995/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Genocide KW - Rwanda KW - Humanitarian intervention KW - History KW - Civil War, 1994 KW - Histoire KW - 1994 (Guerre civile) KW - fast KW - Ruanda KW - gnd KW - Politics and government KW - nli N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -