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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101859845886

ISBN-139781859845882

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Book TitleConspiracy to Murder : the Rwanda Genocide

Number of Pages360 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicTerrorism, Genocide & War Crimes, Africa / East

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorLinda Melvern

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-000822

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'eoeLinda Melvern's work on Rwanda is in the finest traditions of investigative journalism. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide extends her previous book, A People Betrayed: the Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide, a brilliant investigation into the tragedy for which the 'international community' was itself responsible. With testimony from witnesses and access to documents previously unseen, she tells an epic and shaming story of culpability and missed opportunities. 'e�, "Linda Melvern's work on Rwanda is in the finest traditions of investigative journalism. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide extends her previous book, A People Betrayed: the Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide , a brilliant investigation into the tragedy for which the 'international community' was itself responsible. With testimony from witnesses and access to documents previously unseen, she tells an epic and shaming story of culpability and missed opportunities."-John Pilger

Dewey Decimal967.57104/31

SynopsisIn April 1994 up to a million people were slaughtered in Rwanda during a murderous campaign of horrifying efficiency.The ferocity of the killing and the cruelty inflicted on defenceless people has no comparison in modern times. Conspiracy to Murder is the story of how that genocide was planned. It reveals how, from as early as 1990, the political, military and administrative leadership of Rwanda became involved in planning the complete extermination of the Tutsi population. A vicious hate campaign filled the media, urging Hutus to kill; a network of roadblocks was devised to prevent any escape; civil-defence groups were established throughout the country, with eventually every third Hutu being armed; half a million machetes and other agricultural tools were imported, and 85 tons of munitions were distributed country-wide, in the year leading up to the genocide. In an outstanding example of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern reveals the full story behind the conspiracy, detailing the involvement of world governments whose responses ranged from complicity to apathy. She shows how the killers outmanoeuvred the Security Council and led UN peacekeepers into a steady trap; how the French military trained the killers and how their .humanitarian intervention. in June 1994 enabled many of those killers to escape justice; how the JOhn Major government ignored warnings and then proceeded to mislead the British Parliament about what was really happening; how the US is still withholding wiretap and satellite evidence showing that the genocide had begun; and how significant was the knowledge of then Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali., Between 1990-1993 one of the poorest countries in the world became the third largest importer of weapons in Africa. In April 1994 the world stood back and watched 1,000,000 Rwandan Tutsi die. It was the fastest killing rate in history - 1000 people were killed every 20 minutes. Today the killers still walk as free men., On the tenth anniversary of the horrific genocide in Rwanda, an expert witness tells the first full story of the massacre's planning, with damning details of Western inaction.

LC Classification NumberDT450.435.M423 2004