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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide - The Cat's Paw (Paperback)
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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide - The Cat's Paw (Paperback)
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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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