Promoting reconciliation through exhuming and identifying victims in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Erin Jessee

Promoting reconciliation through exhuming and identifying victims in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Erin Jessee

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This policy brief considers the past, present and future of forensic exhumations in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide. Past exhumations conducted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were short-lived and controversial, from the perspective of both the international community and the communities that hosted the investigations. There is, however, widespread support among survivors for renewed

Original language	English
Commissioning body	Center for International Governance Innovation
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2012

Keywords

exhumations
Rwanda
commemoration
reconcilliation
rwandan genocide

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Promoting reconciliation through exhuming and identifying victims in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

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Incensing the spirits: survivor perspectives on international forensic investigations in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Security

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Promoting reconciliation through exhuming and identifying victims in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

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Incensing the spirits: survivor perspectives on international forensic investigations in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Security

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