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- Title
RWANDA'S POST-GENOCIDE APPROACH TO ETHNICITY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE BATWA AS AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
HARTLEY, BRETT
- Abstract
Following the 1994 genocide, Rwanda embarked on a nation-building program designed, inter alia, to create unity by resisting the attribution of minority or ethnic categories within Rwanda. For Batwa, the effect is to render their claims as indigenous mute. This paper critically examines Rwanda's approach to ethnicity using international human rights as an analytical lens, arguing that Batwa have a legitimate claim as Rwanda's indigenous people. It concludes that pressure on Rwanda to recognise Batwa indigenous rights will remain unsuccessful and argues that a normative approach, based on alternatives such as descent- and work-based discrimination, may prove effective for ensuring their long-term survival as a marginalised people.
- Subjects
RWANDA; LEGAL status of indigenous peoples; NATION building; BATWA (African people); HUMAN rights; ETHNIC relations
- Publication
Queensland University of Technology Law Review, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
2201-7275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5204/qutlr.v15i1.561