David Wayne Kanervo

Genocide for Beginners David Wayne Kanervo

This book recounts the career of newsman Tom Osborne who covered the United Nations for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings focusing on three genocides that occurred during the 1990s. The book examines these tragedies and the response of the United States, other Western powers, and the U. N. to them. Other important events that took place during Osborne's tenure at the U. N., such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, are also covered as part of Osborne's story. Osborne takes the reader behind closed-door sessions of the U. N. to reveal the duplicity in these genocides by Western powers on the U. N. Security Council--particularly those who feared, in Bosnia, the potential establishment of a Muslim state in the heart of Europe. Included are interviews with the Bosnian Foreign Minister, the President of the U. N. Security Council, and former U. S. Ambassador to the U. N. Thomas Pickering. Co-author, Dr. David Kanervo, describes the American policy toward the countries committing the genocides and uses Congressional debates to illustrate the different views held by American leaders about how the United States should have responded to the tragedies.