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Complicity with Evil

Complicity with Evil

The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide

by Adam LeBor
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/11/2006

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From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would "weaken” Milosevic.  More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient.
This book is the first to examine in detail the crucial role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide. LeBor argues the UN must return to its founding principles, take a moral stand and set the agenda of the Security Council instead of merely following the lead of the great powers. LeBor draws on dozens of firsthand interviews with UN officials, current and former, and such international diplomats as Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Douglas Hurd, and David Owen.
This book will set the terms for discussion when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan steps down to make room for a new head of the world body, and political observers assess Annan’s legacy and look to the future of the world organization.
ISBN:
9780300111712
9780300111712
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-11-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
209.55x139.7x31.75mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a veteran foreign correspondent who has covered Hungary and eastern Europe since 1990.

He is the author of thirteen books, including Hitler's Secret Bankers, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

He writes for the Economist, Financial Times and Monocle. He divides his time between Budapest and London.

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