He dissented with the State Department in 1994, to call it Genocide in Rwanda, and he was right. He is the finest global expert on GENOCIDE – A Professor of Genocide Studies and Prevention, Head of Global Alliance Against Genocide, President of International Association of Genocide Scholars, Founder of Genocide Watch; a guide to spotting Genocide etc. Just like the ongoing killings in British Cameroon, where the U.S has remained silent, as indicated earlier, Dr. Gregory Stanton, courageously dissented with the U.S Government Policy of silence on the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
He was later assigned to draft the UNSC Resolution that created the International Criminal Tribune for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry and the Central African Arms Flow.
He also drafted the UN Peacekeeping Operation Resolution that helped brought an end to the Mozambique Civil War. Still at the State Department, where he worked from 1992-99, Dr. Gregory Stanton, equally wrote the State Department Options Paper on ways to bring the Kamer Rouge to Justice in Cambodia.
He was in 1994 awarded the American Foreign Service Association’s W. Averell Harriman Award for “extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage,” based on his dissent from U.S. policy on the Rwandan genocide.
Sounding the alarm recently on the Atrocity Crimes in British Cameroon, Dr. Stanton, best known for his work on the 10 stages of genocide, on the site Genocide Watch was categorical that the stages have been exhausted in British Cameroon, and intervention long overdue. The government of French Cameroon he says is now in the denial stage, and since the world is silent, she continues the killings. According to Prof. Stanton, self-defense is a legitimate weapon of defense, in a fight for survival like in British Cameroon, where women, children and their villages are killed and razed. On how the 10 stages fits in the British Cameroon genocide,
WHO REALLY IS DR. GREGORY STANTON?
He is the finest gem on GENOCIDE. Dr. Gregory Stanton is the former Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia. He is best known for his work in the area of genocide studies.
He is the founder and president of Genocide Watch, the founder and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide. From 2007 to 2009 he was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He was the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, until his retirement in 2019…..