Rwanda: justice taken hostage

Rwanda: justice taken hostage Documentary about the tribunal investigating Rwanda's genocide. Describes the danger of coming forward as a witness, the lack of justice for victims and the limited results achieved by the International Tribunal.
Interview with survivor returning to the site of her destroyed home where her family was murdered.

Archive footage of tutsi survivor, in background believed children of her Hutu aggressors.

Archive footage of massacre of Tutsi.

Black and white footage of bodies.

Footage and interview with Carla del Ponte (swiss prosecuting lawyer).

Footage of Kagame (President of the Republic).

Interview with Jean de Dieu Mucyo, Rwandan Justice minister.

Interview with Charles Mangele, TPIR Cameroonian Inspector researching genocides.

Footage of inspectors at site of 1994 massacre: Gikumero church, where more than 2000 people were exterminated.

Footage of locals in church village who saw the massacre and claim to have recognised the then Minister for Education.

Footage and interviews with witnesses scared of testifying in Arusha.

Interview with Richard Renaud, in charge of TPIR prosecutions.

Interview with survivor who contracted VD from rape.

Footage of Carla del Ponte and Esther Mujawayo (representative of widows of the genocide) at IBUKA conference, Brussels.

Footage of '5 star' prison.

Interview with Adama Dieng, TPIR clerk.

Footage of intrusive, torturous, ridiculing cross-examination of rape victim at the Tribunal.

Footage of ex-prime minister (Jean Kambanda), who pleaded guilty to genocide, and other defendants in court.

Footage of countryside ravaged by war.

Interview with Francois-Xavier Nsanzuwera, ex-prosecuting lawyer for Rwandan Republic.
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