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Could The Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?
Card Number 35738
Number
35738
Author
Stanton, Gregory H.
Date
January 2002
Ymd
20020101
Title
Could The Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?
File name
Size
209775 bytes
Pages nb.
16
Source
Type
Article de revue
Language
en
Abstract
Dr. Gregory Stanton was a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Organizations, UN Office of Political Affairs, in 1994, at the time of the Tutsi genocide. He was tasked by UN Ambassador, and later Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, with interviewing individuals who contributed to U.S. policy during the genocide. He won the W. Averell Harriman Award for "intellectual courage" for his dissent from U.S. policy during the genocide. After leaving the State Department in 1999 to found Genocide Watch, Stanton wrote this article while at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In this document, he describes why the United States refused to recognize the genocide against the Tutsi as genocide for three months, why the United States led the UN to withdraw 2,000 UN peacekeepers from Rwanda toward the start of the genocide, and how 800,000 Rwandans perished in a genocide that could have been prevented.