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.
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