Veneranda Mukamubano and her children at a transit centre in Rwanda
after returning from Uganda on a UNHCR-organised convoy.
© UNHCR/B.Heger |
The UN has declared April 7 as the International
Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in
Rwanda. Ten years ago,over
900,000 Rwandans were killed during
a 100-day period between April and July.
The mayhem produced a massive refugee crisis
and left almost 100,000 children orphaned.
FMO research guide:
Documents:
Selected full-text documents (for more,
search in the Digital Library)
- Action Aid, Understanding
the Great Lakes crisis: an international
conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, 30
November to 2 December 1996 (1996)
- Bunting, Ikeweba et al., Summary
report from the International Workshop
on Refugee Crisis in the Great Lakes Region
August 1995, Arusha (1995)
- Connelly, Maureen, Refugees or hostages? (1997)
- Lautze, Sue, Strategic
humanitarian coordination in the Great
Lakes Region 1996-1997: An independent
study for the inter agency standing committee
(1998)
- Macrae, Joanna, ed., Special issue:
Masking
a policy vacuum: reviewing the lessons
of international response to the Rwanda
crisis, Disasters 20(4) (1996)
- Sangara, Aime B. Understanding
the present conflict in Rwanda: a
look at some key factors which contributed
to the outbreak of the Genocide, (1994)
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