Rwanda genocide 20 years on: Professor Sir Nigel Rodley

Published: April 4, 2014, 4:03 p.m.

Shortly after the start of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, Chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex visited the country. He was United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and was asked to go to Rwanda as part of a joint UN mission. Here he describes what he saw and recorded alongside his thoughts on how attitudes to intervention have changed since the Rwandan Genocide.