NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Volume 22 Number 3 Article 4 Summer 1997 It Happened and it Can Happen Again: The International Response to Genocide in Rwanda Dorinda Lea Peacock Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj Recommended Citation Dorinda L. Peacock, It Happened and it Can Happen Again: The International Response to Genocide in Rwanda, 22 N.C. J. INT'L L. 899 (1996). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/vol22/iss3/4 This Comments is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of International Law by an authorized editor of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. It Happened and it Can Happen Again: The International Response to Genocide in Rwanda Cover Page Footnote International Law; Commercial Law; Law This comments is available in North Carolina Journal of International Law: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/ vol22/iss3/4 COMMENTS "It Happened and It Can Happen Again": The International Response to Genocide in Rwanda I. Introduction ......................................................................... 900 II. W hat is G enocide? ................................... .. .. .. .. ................... 903 III. The Jewish Holocaust of World War II .............................. 906 IV. The Genocide in Rwanda .................................................... 911 A. Rwanda's Colonial History ..........................................