World+Response+to+the+Rwandan+Genocide

=World Response to the Rwandan Genocide=

The world had a lack of an adequate response to the Rwandan Genocide. The international community never declared the murders occurring in Rwanda to be a genocide at the time these events occurred. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations did not have an adequate amount of people to deal with the genocide and did not have practices set in place to deal with or help prevent genocide. A reaction from the international community did not come in enough time to stop the events from contuining. Had the world responded to the Rwandan genocide and taken swift action many lives could possibly have been saved.

The French established a security zone in the southwest, the fleeing Hutus were soon gathered in displaced persons(DP) camps inside the area under French control. There was also displaced person camps near every large Rwandan town in the southwest.. They were attended by the U.N. High Commision for Refugees (UNHCR), they soon began to take on the same aspects of permanence that were appearing in camps in Zaire.

It involved military missions from 7 countries including the United States, Canada, ireland, Japan, Germany, Britain, and Israel.


 * __Works Cited__**


 * Article:** Williams, Paul. "Military responses to mass killing: The African union mission in Sudan." __International Peacekeeping (13533312)__ 13.2 (June 2006): 168-183. __Academic Search Premier__. EBSCO. Blackwell Library, Salisbury, MD. 24 Mar. 2009 <[]>.


 * Books:** Jones, Bruce D. __Peacemaking in Rwanda the dynamics of failure__. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001.

Odom, Thomas P. __Journey into darkness genocide in Rwanda__. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 2005.


 * Website**: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,570204,00.html