Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2017
1 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Dec. 9, 1948, Art. 1, S. Exec. Doc. B., 91–2, at 1 (1970), 78 UNTS 277, 280. The United States is a party to this convention.
2 Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, Annex A, ¶ E.S.1, OAU Doc. IPEP/Panel (May 29, 2000), obtainable from <http://www.oau-oua.org/Document/ipep/ipep.htm>.
3 Id.
4 The panel members were Quett Ketumile Joni Masire (chairman, Botswana), P. N. Bhagwati (India), Hocine Djoudi (Algeria), Stephen Lewis (Canada), Lisbet Palme (Sweden), Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia), and Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali).
5 Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, supra note 2.
6 Id., ¶¶ 12.32–33, 12.36, 12.41, 15.14–17 (footnotes omitted).
7 Richard Boucher, Spokesman, U.S. Dep’t of State Daily Press Briefing at 6–7 (July 7, 2000) <http://secretary.state.gov/www/briefings/0007/000707db.html>; see Albright Disputes Report on Rwanda, Wash. Post July 10, 2000, at A4 (quoting Secretary Albright as stating, “The truth, though, that has to be kept in mind is that the whole thing exploded rapidly. There wasn’t a U.N. force capable of taking this on.”).