A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/114 7 March 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 110 (c) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.3 and Corr.1)] 51/114. Situation of human rights in Rwanda The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights,2 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide3 and other applicable standards of human rights and humanitarian law, 22 of 15 23 Recalling its resolutions 50/57 of 12 December 1995 and 50/200 of December 1995, and taking note of Security Council resolutions 1050 (1996) 8 March 1996, 1078 (1996) of 9 November 1996 and 1080 (1996) of November 1996, and of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/76 of April 1996,4 Deeply concerned by the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights and of the Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda that genocide and systematic and widespread violations of international humanitarian law, including crimes against humanity and grave violations and abuses of human rights, were committed in Rwanda, 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 Resolution 2200 A (XXII), annex. 3 Resolution 260 A (III). 4 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement No. 3 (E/1996/23), chap. II, sect. A. 97-77155 /...