INTRODUCTION by William Shawcross
The Unlearned Lesson of History
1. The Crime of Genocide
Criminal Intention; The Necessary Distinctions; The Importance of
Making Distinctions
2. The Three Genocides of the 20th Century
The Young Turks, Territory and Nationalism; The Nazis and
Industrial Destruction; The Racism of the Hutu, The Old and the
New; The Characteristics of Genocide
3. Hutu and Tutsi: Tribalism Without a Tribe
The Perception of Colour, Black and White; Promoting the Tutsi; The
Belgian About-Turn and the 1959 Revolution; The Tutsi as
Scapegoat
4. From Indifference to Compassion
The Shadow of Somalia; French Intervention, Atonement for the Past;
The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention
5. Justice Must be Done
Individual Culpability and Collective Responsibility; Crime and
Punishment; Britain, France and Belgium and Political
Responsibility
Appendices
Convention for the Prevention of and Punishment for the Crime of
Genocide
Chronology
Alain Destexhe is the former Secretary General of Medecins sans
Frontieres ('Doctors Without Borders') and is a member of the
Belgian Senate. He is the author of L'humanitaire impossible ou
deux siecles d'ambiguites (Armand Colin, 1993).
William Shawcross is the author of Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and
the Destruction of Cambodia
'An angry and eloquent book'
*Edward Mortimer, Financial Times*
'A treatise to counter the catch all of media coverage in which
'all catastrophes are treated alike and reduced to their lowest
common denominator - compassion on the part of the onlooker'
*Observer*
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