ABSTRACT
The United Nation Convention on Genocide embraces more than just killing, even though, for many, this is the most apparent manifestation of what genocide is all about. The notion of 'cultural genocide' is frequently employed when meaning the deliberate destruction of a group's culture and its enforced replacement by another. The term culture, broadly speaking, embraces such factors as language and literature, art, artefacts, and architectural monuments, as well as a common past; in short, all the ingredients that help a group to forge a collective identity. Elsewhere, commentators have argued that the memory of the famine had a similar effect on Irish culture as would be expected of a population that had experienced genocide. When the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda ended in 1994, Hutu perpetrators fled into the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where they formed the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR).
