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Rwanda Law and Reality Progress in Judicial Reform in Rwanda
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-366-8 July 25, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 441 KB, 113 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Renewed Crisis in North Kivu
HRW Index No.: A1917 October 23, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 491 KB, 90 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “There Will Be No Trial” Police Killings of Detainees and the Imposition of Collective Punishments Deaths in police custody have increased in Rwanda, where officers of the National Police have killed at least 20 detainees since November 2006. This 37-page report is based on dozens of interviews with families of victims, eyewitnesses and others. Human Rights Watch found that many of the 20 detainees killed were accused of crimes relating to genocide survivors or other persons involved in the gacaca process meant to deliver justice for the genocide. The others had been accused of murder, rape or theft. HRW Index No.: A1910 July 24, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 998 KB, 38 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Struggling to Survive Barriers to Justice for Rape Victims in Rwanda This 58-page report investigates the persistent weaknesses in the Rwandan legal system that hamper the investigation and prosecution of sexual violence. The report also documents the desperate health and economic situation of rape survivors. Many of the women who were raped became infected with HIV. HRW Index No.: A1610 September 30, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 424 KB, 60 pgs Purchase online Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Topical Digests of the Case Law of the ICTR and the ICTY This 285-page book organizes the tribunals’ decisions by topic, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual criminal responsibility, command responsibility and sentencing. HRW Index No.: 1564322955 February 20, 2004 Download PDF, 996 KB, 285 pgs Purchase online Rwanda: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict Reports indicated that the practice of recruiting children as young as 15 into the Rwandese Defence Forces had stopped, although some children remained in the army. While the Rwandese government argued that these children worked as servants, some had an army number indicating that they were soldiers. January 16, 2004 Lasting Wounds: Consequences of Genocide and War for Rwanda's Children Rwandan children still suffer the devastating consequences of the 1994 genocide and the war that preceded and followed it, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the 80-page report, “Lasting Wounds: Consequences of Genocide and War for Rwanda’s Children,” Human Rights Watch documents the widespread abuse and exploitation of children in 1994 and since. In the violence nine years ago, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and maimed, physically and psychologically. Hundreds of thousands of children were orphaned and many now try to cope on their own. Families all over the country have opened their homes to needy children but, themselves living in poverty, they have not always respected foster children’s rights. Some children are exploited as domestic servants in exchange for some food and a place to sleep. Thousands have fled to city streets, only to find themselves harassed and arrested by law enforcement officials. HRW Index No.: 1505A April 3, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Rwanda: Observing the Rules of War? Both Rwandan government troops and adversary rebel forces of the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) have given civilians greater protection in the conflict in Rwanda’s northwest in 2001, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. As these forces continue to confront each other in the eastern Congo, Human Rights Watch called on both sides to impose the same discipline on their combatants in any new clashes. In contrast to previous combat in northwestern Rwanda where thousands of civilians were slain by both government army and rebel forces, the most recent episode inside Rwanda of the ongoing central African war cost relatively few civilian lives. The report, “Rwanda: Observing the Rules of War?” documents the findings of field research into combat in the northwest of Rwanda from May to July, based on interviews with civilians, combatants, and former combatants. Evidence shows that both government and rebel forces imposed new rules restricting attacks on civilians in the internal conflict, enforcing these through disciplinary measures. In stark contrast, the new rules did not apply to fighting by the Rwandan army and its proxies in eastern Congo’s Kivu region or to ALIR’s forces there. ALIR forces inside Rwanda also persisted in past patterns of looting and the use of child soldiers. 17pp, 3.00 HRW Index No.: (A1308) December 20, 2001 Download PDF Purchase online Rwanda: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers It has been estimated that over 20,000 children have taken part in hostilities in Rwanda.1 While the Rwandan government today claims that there are no children remaining among government forces, reports of child recruitment continue to emerge both in the context of sporadic fighting with Hutu armed groups in Rwanda and fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in support of opposition forces there. Hutu opposition forces in Rwanda (also active in the DRC and Burundi) continue to recruit children, both within Rwanda and in neighbouring countries. Hundreds of children imprisoned on genocide charges since 1994 – many under 13 at the time – remain in detention. June 12, 2001 Uprooting The Rural Poor In Rwanda The Rwandan government has violated the basic rights of tens of thousands of people by forcing them to abandon their homes in rural areas and move to makeshift dwellings in government-designated sites, Human Rights Watch charges in this report. The government's massive plan to reorganize life in the rural areas, known as the National Habitat Policy, decreed an end to Rwandans' customary way of living in dispersed homesteads. Many homeowners were forced to destroy their own homes and many families lived for more than a year in hovels made of sticks, mud, and banana leaves. Some who resisted the plan were punished with fines or jail terms, the Human Rights Watch report says. The 91-page report, "Uprooting the Rural Poor in Rwanda," says that from early 1997 through the end of 2000 hundreds of thousands of Rwandans living in Kibungo, Mutara, Kigali-rural, and Ruhengeri provinces left their homes for the sites. Ninety percent of Rwandans live in the countryside and are supposed to be affected by the policy. HRW Index No.: ISBN:1-56432-261-0 May 1, 2001 Purchase online Rwanda: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa The Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme [National Human Rights Commisson] was established in 1999, though originally envisioned in the 1993 Arusha Peace Accord. The mandate of the Rwandan Commission is extremely broad. However, its capacity to get enforcement of its recommendations is weak and it is unclear whether the Commission's mandate allows it to directly initiate criminal proceedings or access restricted locations in the course of an investigation. It is too early to tell whether the Rwandan commission will function independently enough to help improve the human rights situation. January 1, 2001 Rwanda: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: Rwanda ratified the Mine Ban Treaty on 13 June 2000. There have been allegations of Rwandan use of mines in the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in the June 2000 battle for Kisangani. Rwanda denies any use. >From 1995 to February 2000, 16,983 mines and UXO were cleared in Rwanda, and about 5,000 hectares of land. Three prefectures that were the most affected are now 90% cleared. In April 2000, the National Demining Office reported that clearance operations had been postponed since December 1999 due to lack of explosives. The U.S. military completed its demining training program in February 2000. In 1999 and 2000, there have been twelve mine casualties. August 1, 2000 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. HRW Index No.: A1201 April 1, 2000 Purchase online Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda In 1994 a small elite chose genocide to keep power in Rwanda. They used state resources and authority to incite--or force--tens of thousands of Rwandans to kill the Tutsi minority. Within one hundred days, they slaughtered more tha half a million people, three quarters of the Tutsi o Rwanda. HRW Index No.: 1711 March 1, 1999 Purchase online Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath During the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women were subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale, perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe, by other civilians, and by soldiers of the Rwandan Armed Forces (Forces Armées Rwandaises, FAR), including the Presidential Guard. Administrative, military and political leaders at the national and local levels, as well as heads of militia, directed or encouraged both the killings and sexual violence to further their political goal: the destruction of the Tutsi as a group. HRW Index No.: 2084 September 1, 1996 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." HRW Index No.: A704 May 1, 1995 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. HRW Index No.: A701 April 1, 1995 HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA AND U.S. POLICY The White House conference on Africa came at a time when the Clinton Administration’s cautious response to the monstrous crime of genocide in Rwanda was increasingly under attack at home and abroad and offered an opportunity for it to adopt a much-needed change of course. This report offers a summary of human rights developments and U.S. human rights policy in ten African countries. HRW Index No.: A606 July 1, 1994 Genocide in Rwanda 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. HRW Index No.: A604 May 1, 1994 Arming Rwanda: The Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses in the Rwandan Wa n 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. HRW Index No.: A601 January 1, 1994 |
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