Rwanda Genocide :1990’s1918 - Belgians take control of
Rwanda1933 - The Belgians organize a census and mandate that everyone be issued an identity card classifying them as either Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa. 1994 - Hutu extremists begin killing their political opponents. (approx. 8,000,000)April 18, 1994 – 50,000 more Tutsis are killed.July 1994 – The genocide comes to an end.
Rights Violations• notably extrajudicial
killings• "disappearances" of
political dissidents• as well as arbitrary
arrests and acts of violence, torture and murders committed by police.
"The genocide needs to be understood as an event, not the lifetime of a country ... Rwanda has a cultural heritage that makes it a lovely and amazing country." - Regine King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58L5BuuSlc
Hutus
Jan. 5-10 1995 U.N. begins process towards finalizing plans with Zaire and Tanzania that will lead to the return of one and a half million Tutsis to Rwanda over the next five months. U.N. Security Council refuses to dispatch an international force to police refugee camps. Feb. 19, 1995 Western governments, including the U.S. ($60 million), pledge $600 million in aid to Rwanda.Dec. 13, 1995 U.N. Security Council extends its peacekeeping mission for three more months and agrees to reduce the number of troops.
• U. N. genocide trials in Rwanda on March 26, 2012
• U.N. Sending money to help Rwandan economy
• U.N. Continues military aid (peace
keeping)• I.C.T. held trials to bring the accused
to justice on July 12, l993
"The most horrible and systematic human massacre we have had occasion to witness since the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.“- U.N. Philosopher Bertrand Russell
Victims
Victims