• Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000

Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.

• Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who
perpetrated the violence were Hutus.
• Tutsis believed that their origins lied in Ethiopia.
• During the genocide, the bodies of Tutsis were thrown into
rivers, with their killers saying they were being sent back to
Ethiopia.
• The ethnic tension between Tutsis and Hutus due to racial
differences.
• That Belgian colonists considered Tutsis superior to Hutus. This
increased the tension between both groups and ended up in a series
of riots in 1959 causing the death of more than 20,000 Tutsis.
• Rwanda became independent in 1962, and the Hutus took the power.
• Some Tutsi refugees in Uganda supported by some moderate Hutus,
formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
• The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President
Juvenal Habyarimana, when his plane was shot down on 6 April 1994.
• Every single genocide violates the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. It violates Articles one, two and three; Article one is the
right of for freedom and equality, Article two says that everyone is
included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article
three is the right to life (This one was violated over 800,000 times
in this genocide because of the 800,000 people who were killed).

• The genocide separated both sides and made the Tutsis feel
unequal to the Hutus. It violates many more articles such as;
Articles thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty two, twenty five, twenty
eight and thirty.
• 1) Article 1 – “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

• 2) Article 2 – “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

• 3) Article 3 – “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”

• 4) Article 14 – “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum
from persecution.”

• 5) Article 30 - “Nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights may be interpreted

in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and
freedoms set forth herein.”
• In late 1993, Dallaire received his commission as the Major-General of the United Nations
Assistance MIssion for Rwanda. UNAMIR's goal was to assist in the implementation of
the Arusha Accords, a peace agreement intended to end the Rwandan Civil War. The UN
attempted to negotiate with the Rwandan army, with Juvénal Habyarimana and with the RPF.
• When Dallaire arrived in Rwanda, his mandate was to supervise the implementation of the
accords.
• There were early signs that something was not right when, on January 22 of 1994, a
French DC-8 aircraft landed in Kigali, loaded with ammunition and weapons for
the Rwandan Armed Forces. Dallaire notified the UN by telegram, suggesting the cease of
those weapons to prevent violence, but the UN deemed this action to be beyond his UN
mandate. In addition to the arms deliveries, he learned that troops from the Rwandan
government began checking identity cards, which identified individuals by ethnicity as
Hutu or Tutsi. Later, the genocide began.
• Colin Keating, the diplomat who was president of the United Nations
Security Council in April 1994 apologized for the Council’s failure to do
anything to halt the slaughter of more than one million people during
the Rwandan genocide. The diplomat, who was the New Zealand
ambassador at the time, issued the rare apology during a Council
meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide. Mr.
Keating said that New Zealand, Nigeria, the Czech Republic, Spain and
other nations had urged condemnation of the genocide in Rwanda
shortly after it began in April 1994, but that most veto-wielding
permanent Security Council members had objected. The United States
and France were among them.
• 1) Venezuela: Right now, Venezuela citizens are going through
tough times due to the political instability that is affecting
everything and everyone in the country. They don’t have
electricity in some regions, and in others they don’t even have
water! As well liberty of expression in condemned by the
government.

• 2) North Korea: In North Korea, its citizens lack of rights like

freedom of expression, freedom of movement, forced abortion
and in some cases they would even kill the baby if this one
was already born.
• 1) Rwanda: How the genocide happened
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13431486

• 2) The Rwandan Genocide is a Poignant Reminder Of The Importance of Human

Rights
https://rightsinfo.org/rwandan-genocide-poignant-reminder-importance-human-
rights/

• 3) About the Rwandan genocide

https://humanrightsprojectap.weebly.com/rwandan-genocide.html
• 4) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

• 5) Apology Over Rwanda Genocide

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/world/africa/apology-over-
rwanda-genocide.html