BBC: Genocide book reveals West's failure in Rwanda

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From the BBC Online
Dated Friday November 21

Genocide book reveals West's failure

The BBC's Mark Doyle, who covered the genocide in Rwanda, reviews Shake Hands with the Devil, by Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, during which an estimated 800,000 people were killed.
It wasn't until May 1994, more than a month into the mass killings, that I realised the scale of the carnage.
The then-rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front, RPF, was trying to take the capital, Kigali, and the government's Forces Armees Rwandaises, FAR, were resisting strongly.
The near-constant sound of small arms and mortar fire ripped through the air, echoing around the city hills.
But that was just one of the wars taking place in Rwanda at the time - a conventional war between two well-equipped armies. A much more deadly war, a war of genocide, was taking place simultaneously.

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1. kick

swept under the carpet..by some high profile careerists...

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2. I'm halfway through it now

Compelling read. The level of incompetence and crass careerism at the UN and NGOs is breathtaking. The attitudes were best summed up by a European diplomat who told Dallaire, "I doubt that my government will help. There's nothing here but people."

Buy the book at http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679311718/qid=1069450322/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/701-4295431-4949153