One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide

by Jared Cohen

Book Overview

In the spring of 1994, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and Moderate Hutus were killed in a horrific genocide. One Hundred Days of Silence is a scathing look at the challenges of humanitarian intervention, the history of U.S. policy toward the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the role of genocide in the larger context of strategic studies. It looks at the principal questions of what the U.S. knew, and why it didn't intervene, and how non-intervention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742552373
• ISBN13: 9780742552371
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"