POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Humanitarian Intervention, Hutu

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

Somalia and humanitarian intervention in early 1990s. a much more failed humanitarian intervention occurred in the rwanda genocide. Intermediary emerging norms like ottawa convention on land mines, as well as the international criminal court. Rwanda: 10 months afterwards there was the need for overseeing the peace accords between various fighting faction between the government (hutus) and the fighters rpf (tutsis), the general seeing over this was romeo dallaire. This is significant not in terms of what happened on ground in rwanda, but also how it affected canadian policies. After the failure of somalia, there was very little appetite for intervention by western governments. 30,000 troops were sent to somalia without proper training about how to deal with the warlords and what was happening there. After the death of the 18 american soldiers, bill clinton withdrew the troops in 6 months.