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: The question that remains is why does no one stop these atrocities once they begin? Why are they simply ignored until they “resolve” themselves? This essay will be seeking to answer why the humanitarian intervention failed to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. The reason for the genocide will not be the focus point, as this essay will assume that there was no possible way to prevent it. It will focus on three main possible reasons why the intervention failed; the first being that the roots of the conflicts were too deep to simply stop it, the intervention was poorly designed and executed, and there was a lack of interest from foreign governments to intervene. The Rwandan Genocide
Before focusing on these main points, it is important to give some background on the events in Rwanda. This was the biggest genocide of the 90s, with an estimate 800,000 deaths. There were only one-hundred days separating the beginning and the end of the killings. This massacre started with a plane shot down, killing the Rwandan president.