Rwanda Massacres
Human Rights Watch documents
GIKONGORO
Background
Bypassing
the Prefect
First
Attacks
Musebeya
“No
Words for Solving the Problem”
Kivu:
Evading Responsibility
Eliminating
the Tutsi at Musebeya
Massacre
at Kaduha
Tightening
Control
NYAKIZU:THE
MASSACRES
Butare:
The Prefect and the Prefecture
Nyakizu
Commune
Burgomaster
Ntaganzwa: Victory Through Kubohoza
The
Border and the Burundians
Training
and Arms
Beginning
the Genocide
Cyahinda
The
Hilltops
Flight
NYAKIZU:THE
ADMINISTRATION OF GENOCIDE
Restoring
“Normal” Life
“Clear
the Remaining Brush”
Speaking
With One Voice
The
Burgomaster: More Feared than Trusted
The
“Enemy” Arrives at Nyakizu
BUTARE:
“LET
THEM STAND ASIDE FOR US AND LET US WORK”
The
Setting
Early
Violence
Prefect
Habyalimana Removed
Welcoming
the New Prefect
South
of Butare
The
Meeting of April 20
BUTARE:“THIS
IS AN EXTERMINATION”
Systematic
Slaughter in Town
Collective
Slaughter
The
Betrayal of “Pacification”
Surviving
Genocidal
Operations
BUTARE:“WORKERS
WHO WANT TO WORK FOR THEIR COUNTRY”
“Civilian
Self-Defense” in Butare
Security
Committees
The
Murders in May
Protection
Seeking
Intellectual Reinforcement: The Interim Prime Minister and the Professors
Guhumbahumba:
To Track Down the Last Tutsi
BUTARE:“NO
ONE WILL BE SAFE FROM DISORDER”
Hutu
Against Hutu
Dissension
Over the Genocide
Unruly
Military
Law
and Order
International
Contacts
Permission
to Leave
New
Administrators, Dwindling Commitment to the Campaign
Survivors
Authority
and Responsibility
UNAMIR
The
Evacuation Force
Belgian
Policy
U.S.
Policy: “Another Somalia” and Other Misconceptions
U.N.
Obfuscation: “A People Fallen into Calamitous Circumstances”
ACKNOWLEDGING
GENOCIDE
The
End of April: Recognizing Genocide
Diplomacy
as Usual
UNAMIR
II
Human
Rights Agencies
Arms
and Ammunition
“Vive
La Cooperation Franco-Rwandaise”
French
Soldiers: A Private Initiative?
The
Kigeme Declaration and the End to “Legitimacy”
THE
RWANDAN PATRIOTIC FRONT
“Not
Hutu, Tutsi, nor Twa”
Stopping
the Genocide
Human
Rights Abuses by the RPF Before April 1994
Killings
and Other Abuses by the RPF, April to July 1994
Hindering
Humanitarian Assistance
Control
of Information
Accusations
of RPF Abuses
The
Gersony Mission
International
Responsibility
Responsibility
Within the RPF
CONCLUSION:
JUSTICE
AND RESPONSIBILITY
The
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The
Rwandan Prosecution of Genocide
Foreign
Prosecutions and Other Proceedings
Taking
Responsibility
Also from HRW: All annual reports on Rwanda
The History Place. Genocide in the 20th Century - Rwanda 1994, 800,000 Deaths Includes a map. Part of The History Place web site. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/rwanda.htm also has Stories from Rwanda - excerpts from Philip Gourevitch's book, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families."
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