Remembering Rwanda: Commemorating and Drawing Lessons from the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

This event will commemorate and draw lessons from the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Panelists include two survivors of and a law professor who specializes in that Genocide. The survivors will share their testimonies about enduring the Genocide and their lives since. The professor will discuss transitional justice responses to the Genocide and how those responses both drew from transitional justice for the Holocaust and have contributed to transitional justice for atrocity crimes since Rwanda.

This event will be held during April: Genocide Awareness Month. Genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, and Rwanda all started during that month and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising--commemorated by Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)--also began in that month.

Speakers:

• Georgia Bauer (moderator), International Law Society, University of Houston Law Center
• Henriette Mutegwaraba, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Author, By Any Means Necessary: Healing and Forgiveness After Genocide; Board Member, One Tribe; Founder, The Million Lives Genocide Relief Fund
• Providence Umugwaneza, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Author, Next Couple Hours; Founder, Kabeho Neza Initiative; Commissioner, Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
• Zachary D. Kaufman, Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law, Boston University School of Law & Associate Professor of Law and Political Science and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, University of Houston Law Center