The Rwanda Genocide 1994
245,000 Rwandan Hutus escaped towards refugee camps located in Tanzania, Zaire (now Congo) and Burundi. Kibumba Number One (Zaire) had 350,000 refugees, but grew even larger when the government of Zaire sent refugees from Goma and Munigi.In the camp at Kibumba, thousands of Rwandan refugees die daily of cholera, dysentery, and starvation. French Army tractors pile the bodies up against mounds of volcanic lava and then cover them with earth. Death has become a management problem. With as many as 350,000 arriving at the refugee camp at Benako (Tanzania) in just four days, the initial conditions were deplorable.
The massacres left several hundred thousand children either orphaned or separated from their parents. A recent Unicef report estimates that 700,000 children - 18 percent of Rwanda's 4.2 million children - still live in difficult circumstances. 96% of children interviewed in Rwanda had witnessed the massacres and 80% of the children had lost at least one family member.
In November of 1994, the Security Council of the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, seated in Arusha, Tanzania. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was established for the "prosecution of persons responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law". As of April 2004, the ICTR has handed down fifteen judgements involving twenty-one accused. Another twenty-one accused are on trial.
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