Gersony Report

The Gersony Report is a 1994 -built document the human rights situation in Rwanda after the genocide. The report was made ​​by Robert Gersony, who worked as a freelancer on behalf of UNHCR. Gersonys task was to create an analysis of the situation in Rwanda to create conditions for the return of the Hutu refugees.

The report Gersony gained relevance by the fact that for the first time on the crimes of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front Front (RPF ) has been reported to. The RPF recruited primarily from members of the Tutsi who lived in exile in Uganda. Gersony reports of approximately 25000-55000 civilians who were killed systematically by the RPF from April to August 1994. Killed were mainly those of the cooperation with the Interahamwe were suspected as well as officials of the former government.

The actions described in the report were committed by Tutsis, which were the victims of actual genocide. Leading members of the PDF produced after 1994, the Government of Rwanda, among other things, the future head of state Paul Kagame. The report was never officially released, denied its existence on the part of UNHCR. The results were only becomes publicly that the report was launched to the press.