ABSTRACT
As mentioned earlier, after the Holocaust, the international community vowed “never again”—meaning that genocide would never take place again. The most visible and concrete manifestation of this was the 1948 Genocide Convention, which obligates states “to prevent and to punish” any and all acts of genocide. Unfortunately, this promise—but this legal obligation as well—has not been kept. An earlier film, The Killing Fields (FF-5), is set against the backdrop of the Cambodian genocide (1975-1978). The next two movies involve the 1994 genocide in Rwanda where in a 100 day period more than 800,000 people were killed. Most of the victims were Tutsis, a minority ethnic group, although some moderate Hutus who refused to slaughter their Tutsi friends and family members were also killed.
