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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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