Genocide In Rwanda

EDM number 1363 in 1997-98, proposed by Oona King on 01/06/1998.

That this House condemns the genocide in Rwanda which led to the systematic murder of between 800,000 and one million Rwandans in 100 days; notes the failure of the international community to fulfil its obligations under the UN convention to prevent and punish the crime of genocide; further notes that the genocide was neither prevented nor punished; and recognises, on the 50th anniversary of the above convention, the need to hasten assistance to the victims of genocide.

This motion has been signed by a total of 156 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.