Article: Rwanda five years after the genocide.

ABSTRACT

BILL SCHABAS HAS VISITED Rwanda over a dozen times since the genocide of 1994, and has participated in rebuilding the country's legal system. This article briefly surveys the colonial history of Rwanda from its "discovery" by German colonists to the genocide of the 1990s and the relative success -- given the starting point -- of the post-genocide government.

Schabas argues that it has served the cause of reconciliation that Rwanda's post-1994 government has opted for criminal prosecution of those responsible, and has resisted the suggestion that a less judicial approach, perhaps like that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South ...

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