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Génocidaires (French pronunciation: [ʒenɔsidɛʁ], "those who commit genocide") are those Rwandans who are guilty of participating in the mass killings which occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which close to a million Rwandans, primarily Tutsis, were murdered by their Hutu neighbors. In the aftermath of the genocide, those guilty of organizing and leading the genocide were put on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.[1] Those guilty of lesser crimes—participation, profiting through seizing Tutsi property, etc.—were put on trial in gacaca courts.
In a broader sense, the term is also used in reference to any perpetrator of genocide.[2]
See also
- List of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Interahamwe
- Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders
Notes
- ^ International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- ^ David Cesarani, for example, uses it in the context of the Holocaust; see Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (London: Heinemann, 2004), p. 98, 357.
Sources
- Jessee, Erin. "Beyond Perpetrators: Complex Political Actors Surrounding the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda". In Smeulers, Alette; Weerdesteijn, Maartje; Hola, Barbora (eds.). Perpetrators of International Crimes: Theories, Methods, and Evidence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882999-7.