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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: European colonial policies severely hardened the racial categories of Hutu and Tutsi identities.
Chapter 3: The fall of the monarchy deepened social mistrust and division, setting Rwanda up for catastrophe to come.
Chapter 4: Civil war ravaged Rwanda and let Hutu leaders arm their paramilitary death squads under cover nationwide.
Chapter 5: The 1993 Arusha Accords officially ended the civil war, but the government never intended implementation of the agreed terms.
Chapter 6: Distracted by other crises, the UN ignored Dallaire’s increasingly urgent warnings that genocide was approaching rapidly.
Chapter 7: President Habyarimana’s assassination ignited a nationwide, brutal genocide thereafter.
Chapter 8: While genocidal violence swept the country, UN forces deserted Rwandans en masse.
Chapter 9: After weeks of slaughter, media coverage finally triggered a feeble international response.
Chapter 10: As the RPF seized the upper hand, France intervened to shield its allies: the Rwandan government’s génocidaires from looming defeat.
Chapter 11: Responsibility for the genocide falls not just on the génocidaires, but on the international community.
Description
A People Betrayed (2000) is a masterful, in-depth look at the international community’s failure to intervene in one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes since the Holocaust. Through selfish and racist policies, the UN and its Security Council dithered and denied its way through three months of genocidal slaughter. As a direct result of their inaction, an estimated one million civilians were brutally murdered.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in how policy translates from boardroom to battlefield
- History buffs interested in the chilling after-effects of colonialism in Africa
- People who suspect there’s a dark side to the new world order