The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s historic judgment in the Akayesu Judgment established that rape and other forms of sexual violence can be an actus reus genocide as defined by United Nations Convention on Genocide Article II. therefore provides a logical framework to analyze hidden episode extreme post-colonial state newly independent Zimbabwe, namely policy mass atrocities Mata...

In genocide, complex political actors can take on changing roles of perpetrator, victim or hero at different points in time. post-genocide societies, seek to shape memory the violent past forward their own interests, often undermining this complexity and painting a more black-and-white picture that ties with Transitional Justice practitioners’ dichotomous assumptions about perpetrators victims....