1. 1John Kampfner , Blair's wars (London: Free Press, 2004 ), p. 64 . Short told Blair that she would not accept the job unless DFID was given complete independence from the Foreign Office.
2. Blazing the Trail: Eight Years of Change in Handling International Development
3. 4Clare Short , An honourable deception? New Labour, Iraq and the misuse of power (London: Free Press, 2004 ), pp. 85 8 .
4. 5In 1996 Rwanda had been implicated in large-scale massacres of Hutus in Zaire. Efforts by the UN to investigate these thoroughly were thwarted by the Rwandan-backed Congolese leader Laurent Kabila.