Book: Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415619608/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9780415619608%20and%209780415522786_Law   Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide The Cat's Paw By Hazel Cameron Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge – 160 pages Recommend to Librarian Purchasing Options: Hardback: 978-0-415-61960-8: $125.00 Add to Cart eBook: 978-0-203-11359-2: Not Yet Available Description Contents Author Bio Subjects Description 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. 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 Author Bio Hazel Cameron is lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Hazel is affiliated to the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) based at King's College London in association with Harvard University and the University of Hull. Related Subjects International Criminal Law Criminology and Law Foreign Policy Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties Crime and Society Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics African Studies International Law War & Conflict Studies African & Third World Politics Name: Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide: The Cat's Paw (Hardback) – Routledge  Description: By Hazel Cameron. 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... Categories: International Criminal Law, Criminology and Law, Foreign Policy, Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties, Crime and Society, Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics, African Studies, International Law, War & Conflict Studies, African & Third World Politics