International Commission of Investigation on Human Rights Violations in Rwanda since October 1 , 1990 was an international inquiry that investigated reported human rights abuses during the Rwandan Civil War . Sponsored by four international non-governmental organizations , the commission was not officially mandated by the Rwandan government . Ten commissioners from eight countries spent two weeks in Rwanda visiting prefectures and documenting oral and written accounts , along with exhuming reported locations of mass grave burials . Primarily , the inquiry examined three major massacres that occurred between 1990 and 1992 . The commission lasted three months and the final report was released in March 1993 . Due to the dates of its investigation , the commission does not cover the Rwandan genocide , which followed in April 1994
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
International Commission of Investigation on Human Rights Violations in Rwanda since October 1, 1990