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TitleThe Rwandan Genocide: Why Early Warning Failed
URLhttp://www.ccm.nur.ac.rw/IMG/pdf/Jacap...
Description"Early warnings of the Rwandan genocide were ignored because policy makers perceived it as a "civil war," denied the facts, and decided not to intervene, preventing US and UN lawyers from calling the killing "genocide." Early reinforcement of UNAMIR could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but "group-think" precluded consideration of direct military intervention by the US and allied forces, though they were near Rwanda and rescued their own nationals." -- from Website
Authors / EditorsStanton, Gregory
Date PublishedSeptember 2009
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