General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:7/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Rwanda

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #7 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009720

Original Title

Maudits soient les yeux fermés

Date of production

1996

Date

1996

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, French

Duration

38 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Three people amass evidence against Hutus suspected of slaughtering Rwandans in 1994. Françoise Saunier (attorney with Doctors Without Borders), François-Xavier Nsanzuwera (Rwandan Chief Prosecutor), and Joseph Matata (human rights activist), disillusioned by the lack of intervention on the part of the international community in the face of a tragedy that claimed close to a million lives, took it upon themselves to gather evidence that will bring to justice the people responsible for the genocide in Rwanda. While Ms. Saunier visits the U.N. in New York and Hague, Mr. Matata completes his report in Belgium and Mr. Nsanzuwera holds interviews in the Rwandan prisons, all of them making sure there is sufficient evidence to convict, prosecute and start trials. At the time the film was completed in 1996, two years after the genocide, eight indictments for genocide have been announced by the International Tribunal, however, no names have been released, no one has been arrested, and there was no trial of any of the accused imprisoned in Rwanda. The film features interviews with H. Rakotomanana (Deputy Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ICTR), Richard Goldstone (Chief Prosecutor, International Tribunal, IT), Florence Barrilon-Pomes (U.N. Advisor for East Africa), and Colin Keating (U.N. Security Council).

Context

Associated Names

Rekkas, Faria (Investigator)

Laffont, Frédéric (Director)

Frenkiel, Olenka (Creator/Author, Narrator)

BBC (Producer)

Interscoop (Producer)

La Sept Arte (Producer)