Title: The Rwandan Genocide: The Guilty Bystanders
Headings: The Rwandan Genocide: The Guilty Bystanders
The Rwandan Genocide: The Guilty Bystanders
The Rwandan Genocide
Primordialism versus Modernism
International Humanitarian Intervention
Lack of Interest
Genocide’s Future
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Further Reading on E-International Relations

Content: History has seen its share of wars, deaths, failures, successes and heroes. Never had it experienced horrors as it had in the 20 th century; as technology continued to evolve, so did the atrocities of war. A new kind of horror emerged, one that was not targeted towards soldiers, but towards the very core of civilizations, towards specific races; genocide. Armenians in Turkey were the first unfortunates of these horrors, but nothing has matched the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Other genocides have continued to occur, almost one every decade since the Second World War. The world cries out “never again” every time but has not yet managed to stop a genocide. This is not something humans can simply look back on as a mistake in history, this is not yet something from the past, it is still very much something from the present. It did not end in the 20 th century, as Darfur proves that it continues to plague our society.