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Rebuttal to
We, the above scholars, journalists, and human rights practitioners, are writing to complain in the strongest terms about the publication of \"NGO Justice: African Rights as Pseudo-Prosecutor of the Rwandan Genocide,\" and to express our concern at its unreasonable, ill-founded, and intemperate attack on the work of a small NGO in London, African Rights. The article's author, Luc Reydams, in calling into question the credibility of African Rights' ground-breaking work into the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi, seeks to destroy the world-wide reputation of African Rights’ richly-sourced book, Rwanda: Death, Despair and Defiance.
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The Violence of Denial
Linda Melvern is a British investigative journalist. For 25 years, she has researched and written extensively about the circumstances of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She served as a consultant to the Military One prosecution team at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and part of her archive of documents was used to show the planning, financing, and progress of the crime. In this conversation she reflects on her experiences, and on the practice of denial that’s now taking place in respect to the genocide.
BRAD EVANS: Ever since the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994, you have
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Britannia waived the rules: The Major government and the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Ten years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide occurred, serious questions remain about the circumstances of the British government's response. This article critically evaluates the response of John Major's government to the genocide. It does so in four stages. The first section provides a brief overview of the Major government's international agenda in 1994, focusing on British policy towards the war in Bosnia and the African continent in general. The second section deals with the substance of Britain's Rwanda policy, while the third discusses the ways in which this policy has been almost totally omitted from mainstream accounts of this period. The final section provides a critical evaluation of some of the tactics that British officials employed to avert criticism of their government's policies. Based on the evidence presented we conclude that the British government displayed a deeply troubling indifference towards the victims of Rwanda's genocide.
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The Security Council: Behind the Scenes
Following the publication of the various enquiries into the circumstances of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, there has developed a view that the UN lacks the ability to manage complex missions. With particular reference to the case of the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), the author pays special attention to the oversight of peacekeeping missions and the crucial role of the UN Security Council, the Secretary General and senior officials in the Secretariat and asks whether the Council is sufficiently equipped at ambassadorial level to address professional military issues. Does the Council have a right and a duty to know the details of peacekeeping missions in order to take decisions? A culture of secrecy has developed in the Security Council and it is common practice now for the Council's important debates to be held in secret. This means that its decision-making is unaccountable. The author also questions the lack of enquiry into British policy towards Rwanda in the Security Council between 1993 and 1994.
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Missing the Story
In the course of a few terrible months in 1994, one million people were killed in Rwanda. It was slaughter on a scale not seen since the Nazi extermination programme. The killing rate in Rwanda was five times that achieved by the Nazis. Such a crime requires motives, means and opportunity. The motive of those responsible for the genocide was to continue to monopolize power and seek a ‘final solution’ to the political opposition. The means was the mobilization of militia and use of the civil administration to encourage people to take part. Both methods of mass killing had already
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Genocide behind the Thin Blue Line
THE MASS EXTERMINATION OF TUTSIS IN RWANDA IN 1994 WAS THE THIRD CLEAR CASE OF GENOCIDE THIS CENTURY. WHERE WAS BLAME TO BE LAID? COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN UN STAFF IN THE FIELD AND THE HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK WERE ABYSMAL. THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL WAS OFTEN IN DEADLOCK AND IGNORANT OF FACTS ON THE GROUND. THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FAILED THE RWANDAN PEOPLE AND THOSE INVOLVED WILL BE HARSHLY JUDGED BY HISTORY.
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