Genocidal gender and sexual violence. The legacy of the ICTR, Rwanda's ordinary courts and gacaca courts

Abstract

This study has set out to investigate the legacy of post-genocide judicial institutions mandated to adjudicate cases of genocide and related offences vis-à-vis genocidal gender and sexual violence. The study takes the complex genocidal experience of victims of gender and sexual violence as the background of the study. The central questions were: How do feminist theories explain genocidal sexual violence and what is the contribution of feminist theories to the solution of the problem? And how has post-genocide justice acknowledged the experiences of victims’ genocidal sexual violence? Genocidal gender and sexual violence in this study refers to all violence of a gendered or sexual nature committed as a means to enhance the genocide against the Tutsi.