[ASI Foundation strongly condemns and warns those RPF supporters who actually help Kagame and his RPF to deny, confuse, minimize, puzzle and reject the awful war crimes, crimes against humanity, gendercide,ethnocide and genocide they committed against the Rwandan Hutu and the interior Tutsi. These crimes must be prosecuted and those responsible brought to the the bar of Justice. Not to prosecute Kagame and RPF criminals will indoubtedly lead to non reconciliation and to permanent instability inside Rwanda and wider in the region. Mieux vaut prevenir plutôt que Guérir.]
On 01.15.2009, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its 500 page “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” which it said had “enriched the law on genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
Their press release, however, included this caveat:
“Human Rights Watch said that it was unfortunate that the Rwanda tribunal’s prosecutor did not charge those accused from all sides in the conflict, as the Yugoslav tribunal and the Sierra Leone Special Court did in the conflicts they addressed. The Rwanda tribunal’s prosecutor failed to bring charges against members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which became the Rwandan Army, who had been implicated in war crimes. This failure jeopardizes the tribunal’s long-term legacy, Human Rights Watch said.”
This statement is of special significance now, with the argument over disputed histories of the Rwanda Genocide intensifying, as opposition parties attempt to register and field candidates in Rwanda’s 2010 elections. See Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide and 2010 election
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The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
