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 during 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 the author 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.
This account of the legal culpability of the powerful within the
corridors of government, in both London and Paris, shows that these
behaviours cannot be conceptualised under existing notions of state
crime. This book serves to illuminate the inadequacies and
limitations of a concept of state crime in international law as it
currently stands, and will be of considerable interest to anyone
concerned with the misuse of state power.
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