Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide
The Cat's Paw By <http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/hazel_cameron/> Hazel Cameron To Be Published October 26th 2012 by Routledge 176 pages · Recommend to Librarian <http://www.routledge.com/resources/librarian_recommendation/9780415619608/> Purchasing Options: · Hardback: 978-0-415-61960-8: $125.00 Add to Cart <http://www.routledge.com/account/cart/?a=additem&isbn=9780415619608&p=27647 0> · eBook: 978-0-203-11359-2: Not Yet Available · Description <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619608/#description> · Contents <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619608/#contents> · Author Bio <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619608/#authorbio> · Subjects <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619608/#subjects> Description Britains Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity, in violation of international criminal laws during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and actions of the United States and the United Nations, the full picture of Rwandas genocide has yet to be revealed. Hazel Cameron demonstrates that it is the unravelling of the criminal role and actions of the British that illuminates a more detailed answer to the question of why the genocide in Rwanda occurred. In this book, she provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the policies of the British Government towards civil unrest in Rwanda throughout the 1990s that culminated in genocide. Utilising documentary evidence obtained as a result of Freedom of Information requests to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as material obtained through extensive interviews - with British government cabinet members, diplomats, Ambassadors to the United Nations Security Council, prisoners in Rwanda convicted of being leaders and organisers of genocide, and victims and survivors of genocide in Rwanda the author finds that the actions of the British and French governments, both before and during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, were disassociated from human rights norms. It is suggested herein that the decision-making of the Major government during the period of 1990 1994 was for the advancement of the interrelated goals of maintaining power status and ensuring economic interests in key areas of Africa. This account of the legal culpability of the powerful within the corridors of government, in both London and Paris, shows that these behaviours cannot be conceptualised under existing notions of state crime. This book serves to illuminate the inadequacies and limitations of a concept of state crime in international law as it currently stands, and will be of considerable interest to anyone concerned with the misuse of state power. Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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