The failure to prevent the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 is the topic of this book. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian . peace-keeping commander Romeo Dallaire, and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking processes are scrutinized, ., who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that.
