The International Campaign to End Genocide exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. We seek to raise awareness and influence public policy concerning potential and actual genocide. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide.

We address genocide as it is defined in the Genocide Convention: the intentional destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such. We also address political mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and other genocide-like crimes.

The International Campaign to End Genocide works with an international network of organizations to educate the general public and policy makers about the causes, processes, and warning signs of genocide. We promote an international movement to create the institutions and political will to prevent and stop genocide and bring its perpetrators to justice.

Genocide Watch

By Patrick Bigabo and Agencies - The New Times

Shocking reports indicate that a testimony that was recorded as a transcript of sixty hours of interrogations of former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, reveals that the Genocide was openly discussed in cabinet meetings of the defunct Juvenal Habyarimana regime.

The report, widely believed to have been leaked to Linda Melvern, a British author of the book ‘Conspiracy to Murder - The Rwandan Genocide’, says a senior official from the Rwandan war crimes tribunal (ICTR) flew to London last week to question how she obtained the secret confessions of a 1994 Rwandan Genocide organiser for inclusion in her recently-published book. It is believed that Melvern obtained a copy of the transcript from unofficial sources.

Dr Harry Hagopian: Ten years ago, British journalist Linda Melvern set out to explore the truth about the Rwandan massacres of 1994 and to discover why the UN had been so ineffectual in preventing those massacres despite its troops being stationed on the ground.

She began to turn up some uncomfortable facts about those who had turned a blind eye to mass murder. After a long struggle to find a publisher, Zed Books finally brought out her A People Betrayed.

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Danida, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Following the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated a comprehensive evaluation of the international response. The findings were highly critical of nearly all the international actors. Ten years after the genocide the Ministry commissioned this assessment of the impact and influence of the evaluation.

It concludes that the evaluation contributed to increased accountability among humanitarian organizations and that it had important influences on several major donor policies. But, the evaluation’s main conclusion –that “humanitarian action cannot substitute for political action”—remains just as valid today.

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Building Consensus for the Responsibility to Protect

On the morning of 26 March 2004, members of the United Nations (UN) community shared a somber minute of silence to honor the over 800,000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Thus began the Memorial Conference on the Rwandan Genocide, which was jointly organized by the governments of Rwanda and Canada to ensure that the lives lost in Rwanda are remembered and to examine the continuing implications of the Rwanda tragedy for the international community.