Intervention Case

Introduction

Historically genocide occurred several times starting with Ottoman abolishing its minority Armenians in 1915, Roman total destruction of Carthage and its inhabitants and the mass murders of Jews by the Nazi-Germany led by Golf Hitler. 1940 jurist Raphael Lemkin who tried to look a word to define the mass killing of Jews by the Nazi lastly got the Greek work "genos" which means people and Latin suffix "cide" which means "murder" ( Erik & weiltz 2003). But later 1948 United Nations codified the word genocide by adopting genocide convention which was highly accepted by 142 nation states. The Convention defines genocide as the intent to destroy "in whole or in part" to a population defined by race, nationality, religion or ethnicity (http://www.hrweb.org).

Genocide is more orderly and symbolizes a fatal depressing climax of large-scale murders that is noticed in twentieth century. Genocide is one of obstacle in our cultural crises by defying expectation of living a peaceful coexistence among diverse communities. This paper therefore intends to explain why the United Nations failed to take a positive measure to prevent genocide in Rwanda. Why is studying the role of international community in preventing crimes like genocide significant to international relation? Traditionally it is the responsibility of the state to protect its citizen from genocide or race extermination however, the international community has the moral responsibility to intervene and protects civilian from such large scale human slaughter if the state fails to fulfill its responsibility. International relation is built around the concept of state sovereignty; however the role of international community is paramount when the state fails (Welsh 2004). Why Rwanda then? Rwanda genocide coasted the lives of more than half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus within weeks this therefore makes it more interesting