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The Berlin Conference regulated European colonization and Germany controls Rwanda
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Germany loses World War l. And Belgium gains control
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This is event is important because this was the year Rwanda gained independence of it's own country. And This could possibly lead to where Germany could take back control.
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Takes over the government
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Some courts are run in Tanzania by the UN and other courties in Rwanda
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Hutu controls government and Rwandan Patriotic Front.
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This should be important because 800,000 people died. It was one of the most devastating things in the world. Aside from both World Wars and the Holocaust of Germany.
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8000,000 people die in 100 days. This is significant because well 800,000 people die in 100 days that alone is important to the world.
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in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states.
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a significant number of perpetrators of the genocide, including former high-level government officials and other key figures behind the massacres, have been brought to justice. The majority have been tried in Rwandan courts. Others have gone before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) or domestic courts in Europe and North America.
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During the 90 days that began on April 6 in 1994, Rwanda experienced the most intensive slaughter in this blood-filled century we are about to leave. Families murdered in their home, people hunted down as they fled by soldiers and militia, through farmland and woods as if they were animals.
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After many decades of impunity, Rwanda has embarked upon a course of
transitional justice committed to prosecuting all who are suspected of involvement
in the 1994 genocide. The first phase, which began in 1997 and is still continuing,
targets the most serious offenders. Some 10,000 have been tried under the system.
Confronted with its limitations, Rwanda has devised a second approach, known
as Gacaca,
