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Eyewitness to a genocide : the United Nations and Rwanda / Michael Barnett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801465185
  • 0801465184
  • 0801465125
  • 9780801465123
  • 1322502994
  • 9781322502991
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eyewitness to a Genocide : The United Nations and Rwanda.DDC classification:
  • 967.57104 21
LOC classification:
  • DT450.435 .B38 2002eb
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Contents:
It was a very good year -- Rwanda through rose-colored glasses -- "If this is an easy operation ..." -- The fog of genocide -- Diplomatic games -- The hunt for moral responsibility -- brief chronology of Rwandan conflict.
Summary: Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firsthand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firsthand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.

It was a very good year -- Rwanda through rose-colored glasses -- "If this is an easy operation ..." -- The fog of genocide -- Diplomatic games -- The hunt for moral responsibility -- brief chronology of Rwandan conflict.

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