Event
Killings of civilians by RPF soldiers, 1994
Killings of unarmed civilians by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Front during and after its 1994 advance, documented by Human Rights Watch and the UN.
- Dates
- Apr–Sep 1994
- Place
- Rwanda
Connections 3
involved
- Rwandan Patriotic Front its soldiers carried out the killings Scholarship & press 1
- Robert Gersony first documented them for the UN refugee agency Scholarship & press 1
appears in
- Final report of the Commission of Experts on Rwanda (S/1994/1405) examined by the Commission of Experts Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- Apr–Sep 1994 Killings of civilians by RPF soldiers, 1994
Proof 2 sources
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Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Human Rights Watch and FIDH), Human Rights Watch, Mar 1999.
Scholarship & press
At the same time, its troops committed grave violations of international humanitarian law by attacking and killing unarmed civilians.
he concluded that the RPF had engaged in widespread and systematic slaughter of unarmed civilians
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Final report of the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council resolution 935 (1994) (S/1994/1405), United Nations, 9 Dec 1994.
Primary record
substantial grounds to conclude that mass murders, summary executions, breaches of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity were also perpetrated by Tutsi elements against Hutu individuals
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