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Human rights throughout the world
By: questionboy89
Posted: Mar 13 09
Witnessed: 888 times
Issues: Armed conflict, Justice, War crimes
Tags: genocide, International Justice, Mass Killings, rwanda, tutsi, UN
Human rights throughout the world
In Rwanda in 1994 an estimated one million Tutsi men, women and children were slaughtered at the hands of government soldiers. In response to this, the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal in neighbouring Tanzania to try the perpetrators of the killings - its creation was to be a signal that the world would not tolerate crimes of genocide. The tribunal holds individual war crime suspects responsible for their actions, rather than entire communities.
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