1. Legal and Non-Legal Responses to the Rwandan Genocide
... to send troops to and assist the situation in Rwanda at the time. Troops were sent by countries such as Canada and Belgium, however were soon withdrawn due to political pressure and the deaths of small numbers of soldiers. Ultimately, the presence of the Western troops proved ineffective, as they were unable to act appropriately due to their orders to act purely in self-defense. It ... is clear that the nation-state's failures to realize the significance of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan deaths in comparison to their ... own few causalities, disallowed an effective aid mission by ...
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