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UN / RWANDA GENOCIDE 22 YEARS
STORY: RWANDA / GENOCIDE 22 YEARS
TRT: 03:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV / MICT PSA / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - UNTV - OCTOBER 2007, KIGALI, RWANDA
1. Wide shot, skyline
FILE - UNTV - DATE UNKNOWN, RWANDA
2. Pan left, doorway to skeletons in the room
FILE – UNTV - 1994, RWANDA
3. Various shots, Rwanda during genocide
6 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“We need to pay more attention to prevention. Genocide doesn’t happen overnight. Genocide is a process. It takes time, it requires resources, planning and we do know that genocide is always preceded by serious violations of human rights.”
FILE – UNHCR – 2004, TANZANIA
5. Wide shot, displaced people fleeing to Tanzania
6. Close up, displaced Rwandans
7. Various shots, Rwandans fleeing in rain
8. Med shot, refugees sheltering
6 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“We need to invest more in trauma counsellor throughout the country to help this people, but most importantly the efforts of the Rwandan government should be –I would say- supported by strengthening the reconciliation process. In other words, by getting people together.”
FILE – UNICTR - MARCH 2006, BUTARE, RWANDA
10. Various shots, Butare town
11. Close up, genocide memorial sign at Butare University
6 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“From 7th April to 4th July, which is the liberation day, people will always of course remember what happened. And it is important that they remember. Remembrance is a way of life. Remembrance will enable each Rwandan to understand that they have to live together, as a nation.”
FILE - UNICTR - 16 NOVEMBER 2009, ARUSHA, TANZANIA
14. Med shot, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) headquarters
15. Various shots, Judges entering inside the courtroom
16. Close up, Chief Prosecutor of ICTR Hassan Bubacar Jallow
MICT PSA
17. PSA MICT FOR WANTED FOR GENECIDE
6 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“It is critical to make every effort to bring peace also in the region because if you have a situation which is as critical as the one we are seeing today in Burundi, the situation in DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), we are facing some kind of regression of democracy in that part of Africa. We need to invest more to remind the leaders of their role in managing diversity in the most constructive manner making sure that they are inclusive in their policies, making sure that nobody is feeling discriminated.”
FILE – IRIN – JUNE 2005, GIKONGORO, RWANDA
19. Various shots, people arriving to the Gacaca court
20. Various, Gacaca court members arriving
21. Med shot, President of the Gacaca Court speaking
22. Med shot, people listening to the Gacaca Court
Thursday 7 April marks 22 years since the genocide in Rwanda. In 1994, more than 800,000 people were systematically murdered throughout Rwanda. The vast majority were Tutsi, but moderate Hutu, Twa and others were also targeted.
That year, Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu militia, armed with machetes, clubs and spears, took over the streets of the country slaughtering minority Tutsis. Many Hutus were faced with a choice – either join the mobs or protect their fellow citizens, though it meant putting their own lives at risk.
One million people were murdered in 100 days -the genocide in Rwanda started on April 7th 1994, after then-president Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down.
In an interview today (6 Apr) with UNifeed, United Nations (UN) Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dien said that "genocide doesn’t happen overnight. Genocide is a process. It takes time, it requires resources, planning, and we do know that genocide is always preceded by serious violations of human rights.”
It has been reported that an estimated 30 percent of the population still suffer from post traumatic stress. Asked if reconciliation was possible with so many people still suffering, Dieng said, “we need to invest more in trauma counsellors throughout the country to help these people, but most importantly the efforts of the Rwandan government should be –I would say- supported by strengthening the reconciliation process. In other words, by getting people together.”
He also said, “from 7th April to 4th July, which is the liberation day, people will always of course remember what happened. And it is important that they remember. Remembrance is a way of life. Remembrance will enable each Rwandan to understand that they have to live together, as a nation.”
In 2015, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda held its last hearings, over a decade after opening, and convicted dozens of individuals. However, there are still many people wanted for genocide. The MICT (Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) recently put out most wanted list with a reward of (USD) $5 million for any information that helps bring them to justice.
The UN Special Advisor underlined that it was critical to make every effort to bring peace in the region because "if you have a situation which is as critical as the one we are seeing today in Burundi, the situation in DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), we are facing some kind of regression of democracy in that part of Africa. We need to invest more to remind the leaders of their role in managing diversity in the most constructive manner making sure that they are inclusive in their policies, making sure that nobody is feeling discriminated.”
He also recalled the important role of the Gacaca court – a nationwide people’s judicial system- established by the Rwandan Government in the process of healing. In 2005, there were 12,103 Gacaca courts in all of Rwanda processing an estimated 130,000 suspects awaiting trial.
The theme of this year’s observance is “Fighting Genocide Ideology”.
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