Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide A common tool found in most Rwanda households, the machete, was used to hack hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to death during the genocide

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide

Mr. Weiss Major Genocides of the 20 th Century – The Century of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December Article 1 The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. Article 2 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Mr. Weiss Genocide There are four kinds of people in every genocide: Perpetrators: 1. Perpetrators: people committing genocide Victims: 2. Victims: the people who the perpetrators are committing acts of genocide on Bystanders: 3. Bystanders: the people who stand by and just watch the genocide. Upstanders: 4. Upstanders: the people who stand up to the perpetrators and try to stop the genocide. (One of the key questions is how do we turn bystanders into upstanders.) Dr. Roger Smith

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Witness to Genocide – Drawings From The Children of Rwanda

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Genocide in Rwanda ,000 Deaths Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus who were sympathetic to the Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day. Genocide in Rwanda ,000 Deaths Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus who were sympathetic to the Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day.

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Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Facsimile from Maj. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander, United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, to Maj. Gen. Maurice Baril, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, “Request for Protection for Informant”, January 11, US Department of State, cable number , to US Embassy Bujumbura and US Embassy Dar es Salaam, “DAS Bushnell Tells Col. Bagosora to Stop the Killings”, April 29, Limited Official Use.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide 1/11/94 To: United Nations From: Dallaire/Kigali Fax

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide 6. Principal aim of Interhamwe in the past was to protect Kigali from RPF. Since UNAMIR mandate he has been ordered to register all Tutsi in Kigali. He suspects it is for their extermination. Example he gave was that in 20 minutes his personnel could kill up to 1000 Tutsis.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide 8. Informant is prepared to provide location of major weapons cache with at least 135 weapons. He already has distributed 110 weapons including 35 with ammunition and can give us details of their location. Type of weapons are G3 and AK47 provided by RGF. He was ready to go to the arms cache tonight-if we gave him the following guarantee. He requests that he and his family (his wife and four children) be placed under our protection.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide 9. It is our intention to take action within the next 36 hours with a possible H HR of Wednesday at dawn (local). Informant states that hostilities may commence again if political deadlock ends. Violence could take place day of the ceremonies or the day after. Therefore Wednesday will give greatest chance of success and also be most timely to provide significant input to on-going political negotiations.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide FAX – United States State Department (Ms. Prudence Bushnell) to various Embassies.

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Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide The Warning That Was Ignored General Romeo Dallaire

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide a Mr. Paul Kagame He was the head of the Rwandan Patriotric Front (RPF) who became the Upstanders and today is the President of Rwanda.

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Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Rwanda genocide trial finishes after 5 years Xan RiceXan Rice in Arusha - guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 June BST guardian.co.uk Xan Riceguardian.co.uk The five-year trial of Théoneste Bagosora, the alleged mastermind of the Rwandan genocide, ended today with the 65-year-old former colonel insisting he was "a victim of ignominious propaganda". Dressed in a pink dress shirt and pink tie - the same colour worn by convicted "genocidaires" in Rwandan prisons - and speaking without emotion, Mr Bagosora denied responsibility for any killings and urged the judge to "rehabilitate" him into society.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Rwanda's Bagosora sentenced to life for genocide By Frank Nyakairu - KIGALI | Thu Dec 18, :29pm EST (Reuters) - A U.N. court sentenced a former army colonel accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994 to life in prison on Thursday. The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) had accused Theoneste Bagosora, 67, of being in charge of the troops and Interahamwe Hutu militia who butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days. "Colonel Bagosora is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and war crimes," the court said.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide 400 sentenced to death in Rwanda genocide trials July 19, Web posted at: 9:55 AM EDT (1355 GMT) KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuters) -- Courts in Rwanda have sentenced around 400 people to death since genocide trials began in the country four years ago, human rights sources said Wednesday Six others were sentenced to life in prison and four people were sentenced to 12-year jail terms, the sources said. The Kigali-based rights group LIPRODHOR said around 3,000 suspects have been tried since genocide trials began in late It said 400 people have been sentenced to death while 500 others have been acquitted. Twenty-two people have been publicly executed

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Gacaca Genocide Trials Set to Open in Rwanda 21 January 2005 In Rwanda this week, preparations are under way to begin the first batch of genocide trials under a modified traditional communal court system known as "Gacaca." The system is proving to be controversial for some. The word "Gacaca" means "judgment on the grass." Starting next month, groups consisting of people who have confessed to being involved in the 1994 genocide, witnesses, judges, and spectators will be sitting on the grass of football fields and other locations all across the country.

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Gacaca Trials

Mr. Weiss Rwandan Genocide Rwanda: Gacaca - Mission Accomplished BY FRED NDOLI, 13 JUNE 2012 It was not an easy ride, but Gacaca has been a huge success. This was observed by Domitille Mukantaganzwa, the Executive Secretary of the National Jurisdiction for Gacaca Courts, during the launch of the Gacaca Week on Monday. She was addressing a news conference ahead of the official closure of the semi-traditional community courts. The courts have been operational for the last 10 years, trying nearly two million cases in the process. The Gacaca Week will culminate in the closure of Gacaca operations on June 18, when the jurisdiction will also mark its 10th anniversary. Over 1.6 million suspects were convicted, while 270,000 were acquitted. Over 75,000 suspects were tried and convicted in absentia.