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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide - The Cat's Paw (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,598
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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide - The Cat's Paw (Paperback)

Hazel Cameron

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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity - in violation of international criminal laws - in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and actions of the United States and the United Nations, the full picture of Rwanda's genocide has yet to be revealed. Hazel Cameron demonstrates that it is the unravelling of the criminal role and actions of the British that illuminates a more detailed answer to the question of 'why' the genocide in Rwanda occurred. In this book, she provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the policies of the British Government towards civil unrest in Rwanda throughout the 1990s that culminated in genocide. Utilising documentary evidence obtained as a result of Freedom of Information requests to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as material obtained through extensive interviews - with British government cabinet members, diplomats, Ambassadors to the United Nations Security Council, prisoners in Rwanda convicted of being leaders and organisers of genocide, and victims and survivors of genocide in Rwanda - she finds that the actions of the British and French governments, both before and during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, were disassociated from human rights norms. It is suggested herein that the decision-making of the Major government during the period of 1990 - 1994 was for the advancement of the interrelated goals of maintaining power status and ensuring economic interests in key areas of Africa, inferring a substantial degree of complicity in genocide by omission. That international politics is a strategic game has evidenced itself in the roles played by both the government of the United Kingdom and France in seeking to maximise their respective political and economic interests out with the existing international criminal constraints during the genocide in Rwanda. A micro study of the actions of the French Operation Turquoise reveals their actions to be clearly definable as complicity in genocide by commission. This account of the legal culpability of the powerful within the corridors of government in both London and Paris evidences that these behaviours cannot be conceptualised under existing notions of state crime and this research serves to illuminate the inadequacies and limitations of a concept of state crime in international law as it currently stands and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the misuse of state power.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2013
First published: 2012
Authors: Hazel Cameron
Dimensions: 232 x 156 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-53339-3
Categories: Books > Law > International law > International criminal law
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
Books > History > African history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 0-415-53339-2
Barcode: 9780415533393

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