Assigning blame in Rwanda: how to break the cycle of revenge in ethnic conflict.

The Washington Monthly | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

On September 26, 1996, the United Nations's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda began genocide trials in Arusha, a small town at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The man in the dock was Jean-Paul Akayesu, former mayor of Taba in Rwanda and the first Hutu to be tried by the Tribunal. He is accused of atrocities in his district, where 2,000 Tutsi lie buried in two mass graves after being hacked to death with machetes.

Akayesu pleaded not guilty and asked for postponement, but when the trial resumed in January of this year, the international community renewed ...

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