University Wire 09-30-2005 (Daily Targum) (U-WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- How do you punish genocide? Alison Des Forges attempted to answer this question as part of her presentation on "Mass Justice After Mass Violence: The Case of the Rwandan Genocide" Wednesday at Rutgers University's...

ON THE same day that a former Rwandan prime minister was given a life sentence by a UN tribunal for his role in the genocide of more than 800,000 people in 1994, rebel forces stormed a Rwandan prison, freeing 5,000 inmates suspected of involvement...

Black History Month has come and gone. As usual we heard about Martin and Malcolm, Sojourner and Harriet. But maybe we should have taken a moment to reflect on the Motherland? After all, all black studies should begin there. Ask just about any African-American on...

Two suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a priest and a prefect, were arrested Friday in France on a warrant from an international court investigating the massacres, judicial officials said.Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Roman Catholic priest in Normandy, and Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former prefect, were jailed...

Compares the genocide of jews during the Holocaust to the recent atrocity in Rwanda. References The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul Hillberg.

The 1994 genocide had an immense affect on the citizens of Rwanda, and is known in history as the remarkable (though horrific) event in history when the ration between time and amount of death was bypassed. The Rwandan genocide is widely recognized as an extreme failure of the international community to protect people at risk of mass scale atrocities.