Rawson, David
David Rawson (September 10, 1941 – September 16, 2020) was an American diplomat that served as ambassador to Rwanda and Mali during the 1990s. He was in this position when the Rwandan Genocide occured in 1994.
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Africa, history, Diplomats and Diplomacy
As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the...