civil war, 1994

Chronicles the atrocities that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Includes eyewitness accounts of the genocide from people who witnessed it firsthand, from Tutsi survivors to the diplomats on the scene who struggled to convey the severity of the crisis to their superiors in Washington.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Identifies the killing of the Tutsi people in Rwanda by the Hutus as one of three full-fledged incidents of genocide, and argues that the international community failed to take appropriate action that would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.