Cambodia and Rwanda

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This paper discusses the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda and how the United Nations failed to respond although their intervention was sought in both countries. The author finds that the U.S. was responsible for the removal of UN peacekeepers already in Rwanda, and posits that many lives could have been saved in both countries, had the U.S. taken the internal conflicts in both places seriously.

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"As with Rwanda, it is clear that the world knew what was happening, at least after a certain point, and yet failed to do all it could to stop the killing. Howard Adelman and Astri Suhrke find that those in charge of various agencies and stats did not know in the beginning that the Tutsis would be subject to genocide, though they did have the information that could have told them this would happen. These groups should have analyzed the data, drawn the proper conclusions, and then done something to prevent what occurred, but they did not, and the authors cite the failure of the UN in particular."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adelman, Howard and Suhrke, Astri. The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience. Study 2: Early Warning and Conflict Management, Executive Summary, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 and 7. 1996. www.reliefweb.int/library/nordic/book2/pb021.html.
• Cambodian Genocide Program (2006). http://www.yale.edu/cgp/.
• Gourevitch, Philip. "Interview." 2007. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/interviews/.
• Haas, Michael. Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
• Kuperman, Alan. "Rwanda in Retrospect." Foreign Affairs 79, 1 (Jan/Feb 2000), 94-118.

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