It is easy to despair of the United Nations while mass atrocities occur around the world. However, Linda Melvern’s authoritative study of the 1994 Rwandan genocide reminds us that it is the individual states on the UN Security Council that choose to prevent it from enforcing its own resolutions. In the case of Rwanda, diplomats representing the UK, US and France actively stopped its own peacekeeping force from taking effective action that might have prevented the slaughter before it began.
Source: ICN
