Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

Reviews

'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*