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1 online resource |
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Cover; Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide: The Cat's Paw; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Cat's Paw Explained; Acronyms; Preface; Chapter 1 An Introduction; Chapter 2 Global Elite Bystanders, Genocide Complicity and International Law; Chapter 3 Reading the Histories of Rwanda; Chapter 4 The Spectre of Genocide in Rwanda, and Its Aftermath: Internal and External Responsibility for Genocide; Chapter 5 The French 'Resolution': 'Considerable Political and Geostrategic Interests are Hidden Behind the Rwandese Heap of Corpses'; Chapter 6 Britain, Uganda and the RPF |
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Chapter 7 How Britain RespondedChapter 8 A Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
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 gen |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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Diplomatic relations
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Genocide
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000214
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Rwanda -- Foreign relations -- France
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Rwanda -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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France -- Foreign relations -- Rwanda
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Rwanda
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France
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Great Britain
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Rwanda
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
1136287418 |
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9781136287411 |
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