New report again stresses world inaction towards genocide

A report by two human rights organisations, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, has reiterated that the 1994 genocide could have been stopped with tougher international action.

The report, released today ahead of the fifth anniversary of the genocide next week, traces the history and reasons for the massacres. It notes the genocide was not an uncontrollable outburst of rage by people consumed by ancient tribal hatreds, but resulted from the "deliberate choice of a modern elite to foster hatred and fear to keep itself in power". The
introduction to the report states it "establishes that the international community, so anxious to absent itself from the scene, was in fact present at the genocide".

In a press statement, one of the researchers, Alison des Forges, said it was hoped that "this history will make us all smarter about how genocide works and how to disrupt it more effectively". New report again stresses world inaction towards genocide

A report by two human rights organisations, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, has reiterated that the 1994 genocide could have been stopped with tougher international action.

The report, released today ahead of the fifth anniversary of the genocide next week, traces the history and reasons for the massacres. It notes the genocide was not an uncontrollable outburst of rage by people consumed by ancient tribal hatreds, but resulted from the "deliberate choice of a modern elite to foster hatred and fear to keep itself in power". The
introduction to the report states it "establishes that the international community, so anxious to absent itself from the scene, was in fact present at the genocide".

In a press statement, one of the researchers, Alison des Forges, said it was hoped that "this history will make us all smarter about how genocide works and how to disrupt it more effectively".