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Rwanda: the Search for Security
and Human Rights Abuses
The Rwandan government is using the pretext of security to cover
human rights abuses against Rwandan citizens, Human Rights Watch said in
this report. The report details cases of assassination, murder, arbitrary
detention, torture and other abuses perpetrated chiefly by soldiers
of the Rwandan Patriotic Army, and by members of a government-backed citizens'
militia called the Local Defense Force. Rwandan military intelligence operatives
recently forced five Tutsi, mostly soldiers or former soldiers, to return
to Rwanda against their will after they had fled to neighboring countries.
Authorities have linked these cases to the existence of a supposed "army
of the king." In another surprising development, authorities arrested some
forty Hutu in the usually anti-monarchist northwest on charges of belonging
to a secret monarchist association. Human Rights Watch details killings
and other abuses committed by members of the Local Defense Force, civilians
recruited and armed by the government. Supposedly under the supervision
of local authorities, the members of the Local Defense Force commit abuses
without punishment in those areas where authorities are afraid of them
or have benefitted from their crime
(A1201) 4/00 30pp, $5.00
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Leave None to
Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
In 1994 a small elite chose genocide to keep power in Rwanda. They
usedstate resources andauthority to incite--or force--tens of thousands
of Rwandans to kill the Tutsi minority. Withinone hundred days, they
slaughtered more thanhalf a million people, three quarters of the Tutsi
ofRwanda. The major international actors, France, the U.S., Belgium, and
the U.N., failed to heedthe warnings of coming disaster and refused to
recognize the genocide when it began. Theywithdrew the troops that could
have saved lives and made littleprotest against the genocide, lestcondemnation
lead to calls for action. This study, based on Rwandan government
records,dissects the deceptive discourse of genocide and shows how ordinary
administrative structuresand practices were turned into mechanisms of murder.
It describes opposition to the killingcampaign and how it was broken. In
the words of survivors, it relates how they resisted andescaped. Using
diplomatic and court documents, the study details the transformation ofinternational
indifference into tardy criticism. By showing how even feeble censure
causedchanges in the genocidal program, the study suggest what might have
been the result had theworld promptly and firmly cried "Never Again."
(1711) 03/99, 807 pp., ISBN 1-56432-171-1, $35.00
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SHATTERED LIVES
Sexual Violence
during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath
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REARMING WITH
IMPUNITY
International
Support for the Perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide
After a year in exile, the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide have
rebuilt their military infrastructure, largely in Zaire, and are rearming
themselves in preparation for a violent return to Rwanda. Waging a campaign
of terror and destabilization against the new government in Kigali, they
have vowed to "wage a war that will be long and full of dead people until
the minority Tutsi are finished and completely out of the country." Several
members of the international community, including France, Zaire and South
Africa, have actively aided and abetted this effort through a combination
of direct shipments of arms, facilitating such shipments from other sources,
and providing other forms of military assistance.
(A704) 5/95, 19 pp., $3.00/£1.95
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The Crisis Continues
One year after the genocide began in Rwanda, the crisis continues.
Despite calls for justice, no criminal trials, national or international,
have taken place. As of April 1995, the Rwandan government was arresting
some 1,500 persons a week, producing life-threatening overcrowding and
appalling treatment in the prisons and fostering insecurity among the population
at large. Assassinations, random violence, and the confiscation of property
all heighten this insecurity as do incursions from Zaire and Tanzania by
armed groups loyal to the former government. Because of the insecurity,
more than 200,000 people huddle in displaced persons camps, reluctant to
go home. (With Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits
de L’Homme.)
(A701) 4/95, 15 pp., $3.00/£1.95
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GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
April-May 1994
The mysterious death of President Habyarimana of Rwanda in April 1994
was the pretext for Hutu extremists from the late president's entourage
to launch a campaign of genocide against the Tutsi, a minority that made
up about 15 percent of the population. The extremists also killed Hutu
willing to cooperate with Tutsi in forming a more democratic government.
This report describes the systematic slaughter, the propaganda campaigns,
abuses by both sides in the conflict, and the response of the international
community.
(A604) 5/94, 13 pp., $3.00/£1.95
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ARMING RWANDA
The Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses in the Rwandan War
In October 1990, the Rwandese Patriotic Front launched an invasion
from neighboring Uganda, aimed at overthrowing the Rwandan government.
While the war has stopped in an uneasy peace, an estimated 4,500 people
died in the conflict and nearly one million civilians are refugees. The
influx of weapons supplied by the French, Egyptian and South African governments
(the latter in violation of a Security Council resolution) created a local
arms race of astonishing proportion and lethality.
(A601) 1/94, 64 pp., $7.00/£5.95
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BEYOND THE RHETORIC
Continuing Human Rights Abuses in Rwanda
More than 300 Tutsi and members of political parties opposed to Rwandan
President Juvenal Habyarimana were massacred in northwestern Rwanda in
late January 1993 by private militia at the direction of local and central
government authorities. The Rwandan government has acknowledged previous
human rights violations and made extensive commitments to improvements,
but it has done little to follow up such statements.
(A507) 6/93, 29 pp., $3.00/£1.95
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(A403) Talking Peace & Waging War,
2/92, 33 pp., $5.00/£2.95
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