When I was the British United Nations commander in Bosnia, one of the biggest obstacles to getting international action was the refusal to call what was happening genocide. Once an act is defined as genocide, the United Nations is compelled to do something about it. Does the responsibility to protect ensure that we can now get genocide quickly defined as such, to overcome that reluctance to act?
Rwandan Genocide
Proceeding contribution from
Bob Stewart
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 8 May 2014.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Rwandan Genocide.
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