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Genocide Mock Trial
Background: There were about 837,000 victims of genocide (systemic murder of a whole group of people) in Rwanda in 1994. Hutus killed Tutsis and left the bodies in the streets, in the rivers, and on the roads of their nation. Why did this happen? When the Belgians controlled Rwanda, they chose some native people to administer the country. These were the Tutsis. They were chosen by racial characteristics common with European imperialists at the time, like the width of noses and the lightness of skin. When the Belgians were removed from Rwanda in the 1960’s, the Tutsi took over and oppressed the majority Hutus. Tension existed for decades. In 1990, the two sides erupted into civil war. By 1994, both sides agreed to a peace treaty to end the violence, but their leaders were both killed when their plane exploded in the spring of 1994. The Hutus blamed the Tutsis for the attack. Militias were formed and average people took up machetes and began roaming the cities and countryside in gangs. These were the Interahamwe (meaning ‘those who attack together’). In three months they slaughtered almost 1,000,000 people. Now, when the killing ended, the question was: how do we heal? How do we trust our neighbors? How can we make sure something like this doesn’t happen again? This is the purpose of the trial.
Lawyer Sources: As We Forgive (film) | Forgive but Never Forget | PRI Gacaca Courts | Ghosts of Rwanda | Wikipedia: Gacaca Courts | Gacaca Courts Films | In the Tall Grass (film) | Official Gacaca Court Site (Rwanda) | War Crimes in Rwanda (thesis) | Rwanda's Troubled Gacaca Courts | Grassroots Justice | Gacaca Achivements, Problems and Future (PowerPoint)
Witness Sources: Rwanda Ten Years Later | Rwandan Survivor Recalls Horror | Stories from Rwanda (excerpts) | Triumph of Evil: How the West Ignored Rwanda | Rwanda’s 100 Days of Genocide (images and audio) | When Good Men Do Nothing (eyewitness) | Massacre at Nyarubuye Church | Left to Tell: Survivor’s Story | The Few Who Stayed | Taken over by Satan | Rwandan Survivors Say Hollywood Has It Wrong | Rwandan Survivors Blog | Witness to Evil: Romeo Dallaire (UN Commander) and Rwanda (audio) | Eyewitnesses to Genocide | Clinton Meets Genocide Survivors
Jury Sources: Leave None to Tell the Story | Wikipedia: Rwandan Genocide | Rwandan Genocide: How it Was Prepared | How the Genocide Happened | Ghosts of Rwanda | Chronology of the Genocide |
Assignment and Evaluation: Refer to your Genocide Mock Trial rubrics for your lawyer, witness and jury assignments, sorted by grade. Each grade description explains specifically what needs to be done by students in order to prepare and participate in the mock trial.
Lawyer Sources: As We Forgive (film) | Forgive but Never Forget | PRI Gacaca Courts | Ghosts of Rwanda | Wikipedia: Gacaca Courts | Gacaca Courts Films | In the Tall Grass (film) | Official Gacaca Court Site (Rwanda) | War Crimes in Rwanda (thesis) | Rwanda's Troubled Gacaca Courts | Grassroots Justice | Gacaca Achivements, Problems and Future (PowerPoint)
Witness Sources: Rwanda Ten Years Later | Rwandan Survivor Recalls Horror | Stories from Rwanda (excerpts) | Triumph of Evil: How the West Ignored Rwanda | Rwanda’s 100 Days of Genocide (images and audio) | When Good Men Do Nothing (eyewitness) | Massacre at Nyarubuye Church | Left to Tell: Survivor’s Story | The Few Who Stayed | Taken over by Satan | Rwandan Survivors Say Hollywood Has It Wrong | Rwandan Survivors Blog | Witness to Evil: Romeo Dallaire (UN Commander) and Rwanda (audio) | Eyewitnesses to Genocide | Clinton Meets Genocide Survivors
Jury Sources: Leave None to Tell the Story | Wikipedia: Rwandan Genocide | Rwandan Genocide: How it Was Prepared | How the Genocide Happened | Ghosts of Rwanda | Chronology of the Genocide |
Assignment and Evaluation: Refer to your Genocide Mock Trial rubrics for your lawyer, witness and jury assignments, sorted by grade. Each grade description explains specifically what needs to be done by students in order to prepare and participate in the mock trial.
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