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Prelude To Genocide: Arusha, Rwanda, And The Failure Of Diplomacy, David Rawson
Prelude To Genocide: Arusha, Rwanda, And The Failure Of Diplomacy, David Rawson
Ohio University Press Open Access Books
As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana’s plane in April 1994 rekindled the civil war and opened the door to genocide.
In Prelude to Genocide, Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own …