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R w a n d a L E V E L T H R E E - A D VA N C E D 1 Pre-reading activities The text that follows is about events in the African country of Rwanda. What do you know about Rwanda and its recent history? Which of these statements do you think are true and which are false? 1. During the 1990s there was a civil war in Rwanda. 2. The two main tribes in Rwanda are called Hutus and Tutsis. 3. More people died in the wars in Yugoslavia than in the civil war in Rwanda. 4. An International Tribunal has been set up to investigate war crimes in Rwanda. 5. The International Tribunal is based in The Hague. 6. More than 600 Rwandans are in custody awaiting trial for genocide. Now read the text and check your answers. Second-class justice system It is eight years since Rwanda was the international court trying is for the wrong reasons, such as engulfed by genocide. Prosecutors Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague, the incident late last year when at the international court trying is an ad hoc creation of the United three judges laughed as a woman Hutu extremists who started the Nations Security Council. But the gave lengthy testimony about being slaughter planned to mark the Rwandan court has been very much raped. The judges later said they anniversary by laying bare the the poor relation. At least twice as were laughing at the defence political conspiracy behind it. They many people died in Rwanda as in lawyers questions, not the victim. wanted to use the trial of Theoneste the former Yugoslavia, but the tri - The genocide survivors confidence Bagosora, the army colonel who is bunal trying Bagosora and his in the court is so low that witnesses the alleged mastermind behind the cohorts has had neither The are now threatening a boycott of