Rwanda prohibits death penalty for perpetrators of genocide

Published: August 1, 2007, 11:52 pm

Tags: politics, current events, death sentences, genocide in rwanda, international criminal tribunal for rwanda, irony, joseph farah, life imprisonment, mass murderers, self immolation

Joseph Farah writes of his frustration in an article entitled, Help me Rwanda! He is such an eloquent writer that I really have nothing to add. I highly recommend the article. Some excerpts follow: Some 13 years after the government of Rwanda sparked the genocide of some 800,000 mostly Christian ethnic Tutsis, a new government had, in a remarkable act of “compassion,” prohibited the execution of any of those found legally responsible for those deaths. It is as if the madness in Rwanda has never stopped not completely. …Am I the only one who finds irony in the U.N.’s latest “resolution” of Rwanda’s problems the blocking of justice for the killers? …Ask yourself this question: If people get away with murder, does it discourage it or encourage it in the future? To me, this is a no-brainer. But not to the geniuses who run the U.N.’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and every other blessed thing at the

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