Monday, 9 December 2013
Accountability for the Rwandan Genocide: Where Does Africa’s Responsibility Lie?
openly, and in large
numbers, in their midst.
http://www.osisa.org/sites/default/files/accountability_for_the__rwandan_genocide-rakiya_omaar.pdf
Lying About Rwanda's Genocide
Lying About
Rwanda's Genocide
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As a fellow who wrote a book
contending that the current president is a serial prevaricator, I often am
asked by conservative critics: So did you ever call Bill Clinton a
liar? My reply: Yes; I am a nonpartisan accuser. But I'm not talking about the
obvious lies. Back in those days, I did say that Clinton's lies about his
affair with intern Monica Lewinsky were wrong and serious--but not worth
impeachment. (And now they seem puny when compared with the assortment of
untrue statements George W. Bush deployed to grease the way to war.) But what
was more outrageous was a lie Clinton told about one of the greatest failures
of his presidency: his inaction regarding the Rwanda genocide of 1994.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/156079/lying-about-rwandas-genocide#
Rwanda Genocide: Honoring the Dead Without Honoring the Lies
Rwanda Genocide:
Honoring the Dead Without Honoring the Lies
On
April 7 the United Nations began its annual commemoration of the
anniversary of what we know as the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, when as many as one
million Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days.
The
ceremonies raise several questions for all those who contest the received
history of the Rwanda Genocide: How to honor Rwanda’s dead without honoring the
lies?
And,
how to honor six million more Congolese dead, but not commemorated, in the
ongoing aftermath of the Rwanda Genocide when Rwanda’s war crossed its western
border into neighboring D.R. Congo?
Though both tell the received
history of the Rwanda Genocide; the BBC and Wikipedia mark its outset not on April 7th, as the
UK, UN, and Rwandan officialdom do, but on April 6th, when, in 1994, the
assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamiratriggered
the ensuing panic and violence that grew into the horror of the next 100 days
and beyond. The two presidents were flying home from a conference between east
and central African leaders in Tanzania, held to discuss ways to end violence
between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis from Burundi and Rwanda, when their plane was
shot out of the sky over Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.
How Rwanda Judged Its Genocide - Africa Research Institute
Since 2001, the gacaca community courts have been the
centrepiece of Rwanda’s justice and reconciliation process.
Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials,
but
lawyers are banned from any official involvement. Human
rights organisations fiercely opposed the use of gacaca for
trying genocide cases, on the grounds that it fell short of
international legal standards of fairness. Much criticism
reflects legal rigidity towards the unprecedented challenges
confronting post-genocide Rwanda – and a limited
understanding of the aims of the community courts. Gacaca
was inevitably imperfect, but also highly ambitious and
innovative. While the full impact of the process will not be
apparent for many years, gacaca has delivered benefits to
Rwandans in the spheres of justice, truth and democratic
participation. Other societies confronting the aftermath of
mass conflict could learn much from Rwanda’s approach to
local justice.
Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide International panel of eminent personalities
The International Panel of Eminent Personalities to
Investigate the
1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events was
created by the
Organization of African Unity. As the genocide was
unprecedented in
African annals, so is the Panel. This is the first time in
the history
of the OAU that Africa's Heads of State and Governments have
established
a commission that will be completely independent of its
creators in its
findings and its recommendations. We are honoured by the
responsibility
that has been entrusted to us.
Rwanda genocide 20 years on: 'We live with those who killed our families.
Rwanda genocide 20 years
on: 'We live with those who killed our families. We are told they're sorry, but
are they?'
Nearly 20 years after the Rwandan
genocide, Chris McGreal returns to Kibuye to meet the few Tutsis who survived –
and some of the killers they are forced to live with as neighbours
The Hard Truths We Must Swallow: The Rwandan Government Wreaking Havoc in Congo
The Hard Truths We Must Swallow: The Rwandan Government
Wreaking Havoc in Congo
The Rwandan Genocide was 19 years ago. Though the genocide ended
in 1994, its consequences are still deeply felt today. For myself and other
survivors, those memories are ever-present. We have never forgotten the horrors
we lived through, as unimaginable violence overtook our country. We grapple with
mixed emotions, trying to process, and come to terms with today's reality. Our
struggle has evolved from physical survival, to that of emotional turmoil
caused by our trauma. Some days, we are grateful to be alive, to breathe, and
to feel. Other days are fraught with anger, guilt, and sadness. We wrestle with
endless, unanswerable questions. Many days we feel unworthy to be alive. We
cannot comprehend why we are still alive and why many others perished. Why me,
we wonder? Why not my family or friends? We wonder why we had to witness their
demise and are angry because we felt so helpless. Try as we might, we can never
reverse the darkest moments of our lives. We cannot undo the damage, no matter
how hard we wish we could. The genocide was real, it happened, and we live with
its consequences to this very day. I was a powerless child, but still, what if
there was something I could have done? And what if it happened again?
What Really Happened in Rwanda?
What Really Happened in Rwanda?
Researchers Christian
Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994
is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan
government — needs to come out.
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