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The Rwandan Genocide: Why Early Warning Failed Summary

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18 In the article, “The Rwandan Genocide: Why Early Warning Failed,” Gregory H. Stanton explains what went wrong in Rwanda from 1990 through 1994 causing the massacre of at least 500,000 and possibly 1,000,000 Rwandans, mainly of the Tutsis ethnic group. The United Nations perceived it as a civil war, denying the facts which would make it genocide. The United States, along with the United Nations, have a moral duty to intervene, once it is labeled genocide. Furthermore, the legal counsel given made it difficult to decide what genocide is and is not. There was also an unwillingness to give money and military support to help the United Nations Assistance Missions for Rwanda(UNAMIR). When the mass murdering of Tutsis was at a crisis level, the

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