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Eyewitness to a genocide

the United Nations and Rwanda
2003
The author, a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, shares his opinions about the United Nations' failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide, and argues that the bureaucratic culture of the organization allowed the U.N. to ignore its ethical commitment to try to stop the killings.

Ghosts of Rwanda

2005
Diplomats, journalists, and survivors reflect on the 1994 Rwandaan genocide--a state-sponsored massacre of nearly one million Tutsis by Hutu extremists, discussing the actions and inactions of the international community in response to the tragedy.

Running the rift

2012
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

Rwanda

1973
Introduces the geography, history, government, industries, culture, and people of the small country, located in the mountains of east-central Africa, which gained independence in 1962.

Touched by fire

Doctors Without Borders in a Third World crisis
1998

Broken memory

a story of Rwanda
2009

Hotel Rwanda

2005
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.

Season of blood

a Rwandan journey
1996
Story of the author's journey into Rwanda in 1994 as part of a BBC team recording a documentary on the country's genocidal war, recalling the horrors of the conflict that resulted in the murder of up to one million Tutsis by the Hutus in only one hundred days.

Eyewitness to a genocide

the United Nations and Rwanda
2002
The author, a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, shares his opinions about the United Nations' failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide, and argues that the bureaucratic culture of the organization allowed the U.N. to ignore its ethical commitment to try to stop the killings.

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