Hello,
Recently, the Rwandan genocide has been in the news again as Desire Munyaneza is being tried in Canada for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. On Tuesday, (October 2nd) Senator Romeo Dallaire, who was a UN general in charge of the efforts to aid Rwanda, testified against Munyaneza, who was a leader in the Interahamwe militia. He was in charge of a series of roadblocks in Butare where killings occurred. The article can be found here.
The article states that one of the reasons for Dallaire's testimony is that "prosecutors must establish Munyaneza took part in a 'widespread or systematic attack' directed at a particular ethnic group to prove genocide and crimes against humanity, according to the untested 2000 Canadian war crimes law." Given the videos we have watched with Allan Ryan and Samantha Power on defining genocide, comment on this definition. How would a court establish "widespread," not necessarily in this case but in gneral? Also, should people be convicted of different crimes according to their level of inolvement in a genocide, or should genocide remain one crime that is quantified by counts of genocide? Or, as we talked about in regards to Lemkin's efforts, should intent be of more value than any other quantiying factor?
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