Linda Melvern

Linda Melvern is one of Britain’s leading investigative journalists. She was a news reporter for the London Evening News and the Evening Standard and after being recruited to the Sunday Times worked firstly as a news reporter and then in the award-winning Insight team. She has written four books and her account of the genocide in Rwanda, A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide. was published in September 2000 by Zed Books to wonderful reviews. The Observer printed a detailed account of some of the book’s main findings and it was chosen as book of the year (2001) in The Observer by Geoffrey Robertson, QC. Linda Melvern was the runner-up in the 2001 Martha Gellhorn journalism award. A People Betrayed is in its third impression and an updated and revised edition will be published in 2004. Linda Melvern is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the Department of International Politics. She has been researching the circumstances of the genocide since June, 1994. An archive of the documents used in the research for her book on the genocide is in a special collection at the Hugh Owen Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her work continues and the archive is growing. The archive is to be copied and lodged at the National University of Rwanda, Butare. Linda Melvern has published numerous articles, essays and papers related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She has visited a wide variety of institutions in the UK and abroad in order to give presentations on the subject.