Of Rwanda’s estimated 8.2 million citizens at the start of the genocide, at least five hundred thousand were gone in just one hundred days. This is equivalent to about one every 17 seconds, or roughly one of every 16 human beings.

Rwanda’s genocide began on April 6, 1994, after a missile fired from the swamps near Kigali’s airport downed the plane of President JUVENAL HABI-ARI-MANA, a Hutu who had negotiated a power-sharing agreement with Tutsi rebels, enraging Hutu extremists. Within hours, Hutu radio blamed the assassination on Tutsis and encouraged the populace to wipe out the “cockroaches” – their term for Tutsis.

In Kibuye, a Rwandan town, anti-Tutsi sentiment slowly rose to the surface. Kibuye historically had one Rwanda’s highest concentrations of Tutsis, because the land is better suited for herding cattle, the traditional Tutsi occupation. Before the genocide, there were two hundred and fifty thousand Tutsis in Kibuye. Now, only about 8,000 remain. Th

The genocide in Rwanda was no doubt an atrocity that should never again be committed. But can the Declaration of Human Rights stop this from ever happening? The external social control and power exerted by the United Nations could not stop the evil in man. Punishments and the deployment of five thousand, five hundred troops in Rwanda was not enough to deter the killings. Is there anything more that could have been done? Realistically, the answer is no. The ethnic hatred of Rwandans killing Rwandans is a hatred so deep and strong, that no action and no document could have stopped it from surfacing.

A day earlier, on September the second, 1998, the tribunal delivered its first conviction for genocide, finding the former Hutu mayor of Taba, Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, torture and rape. It was the first time a suspect had ever been convicted by an international tribunal for the crime of genocide. As of January nineteen, 1999, thirty-two other officials still awaited trial before the United Nations tribunal. Rwandan courts have handed down more than one hundred death sentences since trials began in 1996. Twenty-two of those convicted were publicly executed in 1998.

The 1948 UDHR came out of a particular period of

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