In 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000
Tutsi --some three-quarters of their population --while UN
peacekeepers were withdrawn and the rest of the world stood aside.
Ever since, it has been argued that a small military intervention
could have prevented most of the killing. In The Limits of
Humanitarian Intervention, Alan J. Kuperman exposes such
conventional wisdom as myth.
Combining unprecedented analyses of the genocide's progression
and the logistical limitations of humanitarian military
intervention, Kuperman reaches a startling conclusion: even if
Western leaders had ordered an intervention as soon as they became
aware of a nationwide genocide in Rwanda, the intervention forces
would have arrived too late to save more than a quarter of the
500,000 Tutsi ultimately killed. Serving as a cautionary message
about the limits of humanitarian intervention, the book's
concluding chapters address lessons for the future.
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