"A People Betrayed contains a full narrative account of how the genocide unfolded. It describes its scale, speed and intensity. It is a terrible indictment, not just of the UN Security Council, but of governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening but chose not to do so." "Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews, the author also tells the story of the unrecognized heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide; volunteer UN peacekeepers; their Force Commander, the Canadian Lt-General Romeo A Dallaire; and Philippe Gaillard, the head of a delegation of the international Committee of the Red Cross, helped by medical teams from Medecins Sans Frontieres."--Jacket.

1 Genocide, April 1994 1 -- 2 The Past is Prologue: Rwanda 1894-1973 7 -- 3 The Involvement of France, Egypt and Uganda 24 -- 4 Akazu: The Oligarchy Ruling Rwanda 39 -- 5 Peace in Rwanda? The Arusha Accords 52 -- 6 Preparing the Genocide 61 -- 7 The Hate Radio: Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines 70 -- 8 The New World Order and High Hopes for a UN Success 74 -- 9 Peacekeepers: the UN Arrives 82 -- 10 Peacekeepers in Trouble: February-April 1994 99 -- 11 The UN Security Council: 5 April 1994 111 -- 12 Four Days in Kigali: 6-9 April 1994 115 -- 13 The Genocide Exposed 137 -- 14 The Secret Meetings of the Security Council 152 -- 15 Genocide Spreads 168 -- 16 The World Shuts the Door 186 -- 17 For Valour 210 -- 18 Starting from Zero: 18 July 1994 222 -- 19 The Genocide Convention 227 -- Appendix 2 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 251.