Volume 50, Number 1 · January 16, 2003

Rwanda: The Two Faces of Justice

By Samantha Power

Eight years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the extermination of 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus, Rwandan survivors and Western diplomats vowed publicly, 'Justice will be done.' But no country or international institution had ever processed 800,000 murder cases before, and the pledge would prove far easier to make than to meet.



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