Analysis Of The Book Leave None From The Rwanda Genocide...

After the World War II, the international community vowed ‘never again’ but that promise was never kept. The world experienced a number of conflicts that in total claimed more lives and violated more human rights than the World Wars. The Rwanda genocide was one of the worst of these conflicts that alone claimed the lives of half a million people, displaced many vulnerable families, created an increased number of refugees, and indirectly contributed to two successive multistate wars in the Republic of Congo. ‘Leave none to tell the story: Genocide in Rwanda’ is a book written by Allison Liebhafsky Desforges, a human rights activist, historian and also the author of the book; Defeat is the only bad news: Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931. Allison served as the Senior Advisor for the African continent at Human Rights Watch organisation. With the help of a team of researchers, she put together this very detailed and informative account of the genocide in Rwanda. The book ‘Leave none to tell the story: Genocide in Rwanda’ was published by the Human Rights Watch in June, 1999. It gives a detailed account of how events unfolded; arguing that the genocide did not just happen by accident; that it was a very carefully planned operation, throwing light on the failure of the international community to act quickly to stop the gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity; Allison recounted the many opportunities that could have been exploited to prevent or stop the massacre and