So much still needs to be done to uncover Genocide-Linda Melvern

Linda Melvern, an investigative journalist, has devoted her life since 1994 to chronicling the events leading up to and during the 1994  Genocide against Tutsi. She was the first journalist to write about the abandonment of Rwanda by exposing the secret decision-making by the UN Security Council. The publication in 2000 of her first book on the genocide, ‘A People Betrayed’, was received to critical acclaim.Lt.Gen Romeo Dallaire wrote, ‘she has discovered so much that we did not know and her book is one of the best resources available’. She has continued to write, explain and uncover the events in Rwanda and in 2004 released ‘A Conspiracy to Murder’ as well as a revised edition of her first publication with more exclusive information. Philip Rushworth interviews Linda  in a London café, a distance away from the horrors of 1994 Rwanda but not so distant from the centres of power whose complicity in the circumstances of the genocide we are yet to fully understand. In this interview , Linda reconstructed the events of 1994 through her insights especially within the corridors of the UN security Council at the time.