A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide

Melvern, Linda

| 2000

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In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making of an international scandal. The book contains a full narrative account of how the genocide unfolded and describes its scale, speed and intensity. And the book provides a terrible indictment, not just of the UN Security Council, but even more so of governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening but chose not to do so. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews, the author also tells the story of the unrecognized heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide - volunteer UN peacekeepers, their Force Commander the Canadian Lt.-General Romeo A. Dallaire, and Philippe Gaillard,...

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Betyg

Good day all well i faith this is a good book through the splendid story through the genocide in Rwanda god bless really have it good.

Monika Häägg

2010-01-14

Betyg

En fruktansvärt grym läsning om något som aldrig borde skett.