Volume 43, Number 3 · February 15, 1996
On Rwanda
By J. F.
Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century by Alain Destexhe (New York University Press, 92 pp., $19.95), with an introduction by William Shawcross, is a short account of the definition of genocide and its applicability in the twentieth century. Destexhe, a former secretary general of Médecins Sans Frontières, abbreviates the UN's 1948 definition as follows: 'a criminal act...with the intention of destroying...an ethnic, national or religious group,... targeted as such.' He believes that there have been three examples in this century which fit this definition in a strict sense: the Armenians under the Young Turks in 1915, the Jews under Hitler, and the Tutsis in 1994.
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