What is it about?
An insiders account of why the international community failed Rwanda in 1994
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Why is it important?
After WW II and the holocaust “never again” was the motto. But in 1994 genocide was again allowed to strike the innocent. Almost a million people died in a few weeks. The members of the UN Security Council had the power to stop it. But they failed. This article by an insider explains why.
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The author was the New Zealand Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council when the genocide in Rwanda commenced. He provides a unique insiders perspective and explains the Councils failure and which countries were responsible.
Colin Keating
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This page is a summary of: Rwanda: the Political Failure of the UN Security Council, Journal of International Peacekeeping, April 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18754112-0220104003.
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