Special Issue: Rwanda Revisited: Genocide, Civil War, and the Transformation of International Law: Introduction

Abstract

In April 1994, the long-simmering animosity between Rwanda’s two primary groups, the Hutu and Tutsi, erupted into civil war and Genocide. Boldened by decades of propaganda, impunity and racially motivated violence, the ethnic Hutu government and its supporters engaged in a campaign of extermination that, over a 100-day period, would leave some 800,000 people (primarily Tutsis and moderate Hutus) dead; an event that was largely ignored by the rest of the world at the time Show more