Justice after genocide20 years on human rights watch. April 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1994 rwandan genocide. Outreach programme on the rwanda genocide and the united. Others have gone before the international criminal tribunal for rwanda ictr or domestic. These two carefully researched studies assess, respectively, the progress of judicial proceedings in rwanda and the tanzaniabased u. In the aftermath of the 1994 rwandan genocide, both the international community and the government of rwanda have placed substantial emphasis on the prosecution of alleged perpetrators, in part because they hope that justice will promote social reconstruction. The international response to conflict and genocide oecd. Legal and nonlegal responses to the rwandan genocide.
If you want to learn more about the genocide in rwanda, these are the books to read. Over the span of 100 days in 1994, almost one million rwandans died in a genocide that left rwandan society traumatized and its insti tutions in disarray. Night by elie wiesel, we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by philip gourevitch, a problem. Americas secret role in the rwandan genocide news the guardian. Legal responses to genocide in rwanda researchgate. During the nine months of the emergency in 1994, april to decem ber, international assistance for emergency relief to rwandese refugees and. Genocide still does not remain unlawful or punishable under domestic law. From the ad hoc tribunals to a permanent international criminal. Combining both legal and empirical research, this book explores the statutory aspects and practice of gacaca courts. Decades later, the perpetrators of the genocide in rwanda. The author, while calling his book eyewitness to a genocide was never in rwanda, but has studied carefully the events which resulted in he united nations failing to stop the genocide.
There is a lot that can be learned from the legal responses to the rwandan genocide. One of the lessons is that the perpetrators must be brought to justice and states all over the world can. Therefore, australia is not fulfilling its legal obligations to the united nations as we have not implemented any formal legislation relating to the prevention and punishment of genocide. The book is a sobering,wellinformed account that raises profound questions about the postgenocide model in rwanda. To a large extent, the legal and nonlegal response during the genocide was ineffective and insufficient, however responses succeeding the event proved to be increasingly effective. This is a bibliography for primary sources, books and articles on the personal and general accounts, and the accountabilities, of the 1994 rwandan genocide. The international response to conflict and genocide. The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere.
Revitalized by the end of the cold war, the united nations in the 1990s rapidly expanded its peacekeeping operations. The book carefully dissects the events and concludes there are various persons who failed in regard to the horrendous genocide. The courts of genocide focuses on the judicial response to the genocide in rwanda in order to address the search for justice following mass atrocities. Legal responses to genocide in rwanda chapter 2 my. By 1994, rwandas population stood at more than 7 million people comprising 3 ethnic groups.
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