The Rwanda Forum
Saturday, 27 March, 2004
On 27 March 2004, Never Again, in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, held a one-day seminar on responses to the genocide in Rwanda. The Rwanda Forum remembered the 800,000 to a million Tutsi and Hutu moderates murdered in just three months by the Hutu extremist government ten years ago this month. link to forum...
Memorial Conference on Rwanda Genocide
Considers Ways to Ensure More Effective International Responce in Future
Secretary-General Says
Silence In Face Of Past Genocide Must Be Replaced with ‘Global Clamour’
The silence that had greeted genocides in the past must be replaced by a global clamour, and a willingness to call what was happening by its true name, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning at the opening of a one-day conference in memory of the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago.
The Memorial Conference on the Rwanda Genocide, which had started with a minute of silence for the victims, was co-chaired by the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and Canada and moderated by Ruth Iyob, Director of the Africa Programme, International Peace Academy, andDavid M. Malone, President of the International Peace Academy. link to conference...
Memorial Conference on the Rwanda Genocide
Secretary-General's remarks
New York, 26 March, 2004
The genocide in Rwanda should never, ever have happened. But it did. The international community failed Rwanda, and that must leave us always with a sense of bitter regret and abiding sorrow. link to statement ...
Memorial Conference on Rwanda Genocide Press Release
Consider ways to ensure more effective international response
Secretary-General Says Silence In Face Of Past Genocide Must Be Replaced with Global Clamour. link to press release...
Frontline
The Ghosts of Rwanda
A special two-hour documentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. link to Frontline...
The Globe and Mail Review by Gerry Caplan
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
By Roméo Dallaire (with Major Brent Beardsley)
Random House Canada
All genocides have their unique characteristics. Throughout the 100 days of Rwanda's genocide in 1994, for instance, government officials and clergymen, mostly Catholic priests, persuaded terrified Tutsi to seek sanctuary in churches or schools. Scores of thousands did so. Trapped and defenceless, they were then systematically slaughtered by the Hutu army and youth militias, often abetted by former neighbours. link to book review...
The International Campaign to End Genocide
Genocide Watch
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.
link to Genocide Watch...
Lessons of Genocide
1915, 1994 & 2004
by 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. link to article... download PDF...
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