Rwanda Genocide

1. This genocide had a great affect on rwanda for most of it’s people in charge had eithe been killed or fled to other countries, this made it a even more unstable place to be at the time.
2. In 1994 is when the real rebuilding began when they a military brach establish a “ Government of National Unity” and tied it into 7 other politicial parties. The also created Genocide Survivors Fund and Human Rights Commission.
3. Government of National Unity helped to establish legal mechanisms for prosecuting and punishing those who were responsible for Rwanda’s genocide, the people were tried in either the international Criminal Tribunal or The National Courts.
4. The International Courts seemed to work much better because they were so much faster than the community courts, for the community courts would often be backed up in cases and this could cause a issue because it’s against their human rights to have a speedy trial.



Part Two

1. The UN officials received the warnings from a planner three months before the genocide actually happened.
2. The training in Rwanda was conducted in the open, The perpetrators of the genocide distributed weapons like guns and machetes openly. The government also aired hate propoganda through the radio’s and death lists were made and openly circulated with names and addresses of the Tutsi’s who would be murdered first.
3. The hate propaganda portrayed Tutsi as evil and manipulative people who were cockroaches and snakes and whose ultimate goal was to regain power and return Rwanda to a country that mistreated the Hutu people.
4. The genocide convention established a legal obligation under which the international community would be legally obligated to intervene and stop the violence, if genocide were found to be occurring in the world.
5. After the International Community withdrew, the militia intensified the genocide, targeting resisters and officials who opposed the genocide.
6. President Clinton says that the International Community and Nations in africa must share the responsibilty for the Rwanda Genocide.