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View Resource Bystanders to Genocide

The The Atlantic features an article by Samantha Power which uses the declassified documents along with interviews with those involved to deliver a "narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystand...
View Resource Rwanda: the Search for Security and Human Rights Abuses

This new report from Human Rights Watch details continued cases within Rwanda of "assassination, murder, arbitrary detention, torture and other abuses perpetrated chiefly by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army, and by members of a government-backed citizens' militia called the Local Defense Force." According to the report, the Local Defense Force, while supposedly acting under the auspices of...

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/rwanda/
View Resource The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction

The National Security Archive last month posted sixteen declassified documents relating to the US response to 1994's genocide in Rwanda. The documents reveal that the United States planned from the beginning not to get involved until peace was restored, that the US tried to persuade the UN to withdraw all forces in Rwanda in April of 1994, and that US officials knew who was responsible for the...

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/press.html