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Moral depravity has claimed its victims in the Rwandan genocide, but legal justice to assuage the survivors is still a possibility. Punishment could thus help compensate for the lack of prevention, as well as forestall a repetition of such a human calamity. But justice cannot be so easily served as more mundane concerns about finance, extradition and refugee repatriation has generated friction that impedes justice’s path and makes it creep at a petty pace toward ethical incertitude. The mechanisms for prosecuting genocide are clearly not sufficient for the task as the international community endeavors to establish a workable legal infrastructure to serve the new post-sovereign world order.
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Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal, Rwanda: Death, Despair and Defiance (London: African Rights, 1994), p. 727 and The New York Times August 9, 1994, p. A6.
For a discussion of the Rwandan position, see Paris, Radio France International, November 9, 1994 (FBIS-AFR 94–218) and Jean-Denis Mouton, ‘La Crise Rwandaise de 1994 et les Nations Unies,’ Annuaire Francais de Droit International (Paris, CNRS Editions, 1994), vol. XL, pp. 233–34.
The statutes of the tribunal appear in Lyal Sunga, ‘The Commission of Experts on Rwanda and the Creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,’ Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 16, nos 1–3 (April 28, 1995): 124–28.
Andrew Cohen, ‘Rwanda: The Agony Continues But the Press is Gone,’ The Progressive, vol. 58, no. 12 (December 1994): 14 and 32; Omaar and de Waal, pp. 729–30; The New York Times, September 28, 1994, p. A7; Kigali, Radio Rwanda in French, September 22, 1994 (FBIS-AFR-94–186); report to the Security Council by Boutros-Ghali, S/1995/107 (February 6, 1995): 4; and ‘Rwanda: “A Waste of Hope”’ ( London: African Rights, March 1995 ): 55.
Rwanda: ‘A Waste of Hope’,’ p. 3; final report of the Commission of Experts, S/1994/1405 (December 9, 1994): 8; London, The Guardian, April 6, 1995 (FBIS-AFR-95–067); and Paris, Radio France International, May 14, 1995 (FBIS-AFR 95–095). HRFOR members were restricted to the investigation of current violations. See Krishna Kumar and David Tardif-Douglin, ‘Rebuilding Post-War Rwanda,’ in The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons From the Rwanda Experience, vol. 4 ( Copenhagen: Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda, March 1996 ), p. 79.
Kigali, Radio Rwanda in English, October 25, 1994 (FBIS-AFR-94208); April 28, 1995 (FBIS-AFR-95–083); and May 2, 1995 (FBISAFR-95–085). Also Paris, AFP in English, May 2, 1995 (FBIS-AFR95–085) and Kigali, Radio Rwanda in French, May 11, 1995 (FBISAFR-95–093). Vice-President Kagame asserted that 700 RPA soldiers were being held in jail for excesses. See Philip Gourevitch, ‘After the Genocide,’ The New Yorker, vol 71, no. 41 (December 18, 1995 ): 90.
Gregory Salter, ‘Remembering the Dead,’ Africa Report, vol. 40, no. 3 (May–June 1995): 30; Kigali, Radio Rwanda in French, May 12, 1995 (FBIS-AFR-95–094); Brussels, RTL-TV1 in French, February 7, 1995 (FBIS-AFR-95–030); and London, The Guardian April 6, 1995 (FBISAFR-95–067).
Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal, Rwanda: Death, Despair and Defiance, revised edition (London: African Rights, 1995 ), p. 77
Bruce Wallace, ‘Aftermath of Genocide,’ Macleans (February 6, 1995): 34; and Omaar and de Waal, 1994, p. 4.
Tom Masland, ‘Will It Be Peace or Punishment?,’ Newsweek, vol. 124, no. 5 (August 5, 1994): 37.
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Filip Reyntjens, ‘Subjects of Concern: October 1994’ in Issue, vol. XXIII, no. 2 (1995): 40–41 and Keesing’s pp. 41260 and 41303.
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Klinghoffer, A.J. (1998). Crime and Punishment. In: The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375062_13
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