Genocide survivors still face an uncertain future.(Rwanda: ten years after genocide)

From: UN Chronicle | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Pavon, Beatriz | Copyright information

Tens years after the Rwandan genocide in which as many as 800,000 people lost their lives, survivors of the massacre face an uncertain future due to insufficient foreign aid and a lack of judicial redress.

Several aid programmes in Rwanda are struggling to meet the needs of survivors who, according to a 1998 survey by the Rwandan Government, total roughly half the country's population. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) helps survivors reconnect with thei...

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