Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide: The Cat's Paw by Hazel Cameron (E

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Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandian Genocide examines the role of these countries as external bystanders to the crime of genocide, and particularly their complicity - in violation of international criminal laws - in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

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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.

Author Biography

Hazel Cameron is an Associate of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Stirling as well as the International State Crime Initiative jointly hosted by King's College London, the University of Hull and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction; Chapter 2: Global Elite Bystanders, Genocide Complicity; Chapter 3: Reading the Histories of Rwanda; Chapter 4: The Specter of Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath: Internal and External Responsibility for Genocide; Chapter 5: The French 'Resolution'; Chapter 6: Britain, Uganda and the RPF; Chapter 7: How Britain responded; Chapter 8: A conclusion; Notes; References

Details ISBN0415533392 Author Hazel Cameron Short Title BRITAINS HIDDEN ROLE IN THE RW Pages 160 Language English ISBN-10 0415533392 ISBN-13 9780415533393 Media Book Format Paperback Affiliation University of St Andrews, UK Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-08-29 Imprint Routledge Subtitle The Cat's Paw Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 967.5710431 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2013-08-29 AU Release Date 2013-08-29 NZ Release Date 2013-08-29 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9780415619608 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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