A People Betrayed
Just published. Revised and updated edition 2009
Zed Books 2000 - ISBN 1-85649-831
A People Betrayed contains a full narrative account of how the genocide unfolded. It describes its scale, speed and intensity.
The combination of revelations about the complicity of western nations, the failure to intervene, and the suppression of information about what was actually happening, is a shocking indictment, not just of the UN Security Council, but even more so of governments and individual who could have prevented what was happening but chose not to do so.
The United Nations, which fifty years ago resolved that genocide never happened again, not only failed to prevent it happening in Rwanda, but, as this book shows, international funds intended to help the Rwandan economy actually helped to create the conditions that made the genocide possible.
The best overall account of the background to the genocide, and the failure to prevent it...the investigation is hers, and hers alone. She discovered so much that we did not know.
Lt-.General Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, (UNAMIR) 1994
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