On April 11, 1994, approximately two thousand men, women, and children were brutally murdered by armed Hutu extremists after a group of Belgian UN peacekeepers abandoned the school facility where they had sought refuge upon the outbreak of the Rwandan genocide. Almost a quarter of a century later, the Brussels Court of Appeal (Court) on June 8, 2018 concluded the civil proceedings lodged by a number of Rwandan survivors and relatives against the Belgian commanding officers and the Belgian state. Overturning an earlier judgment of the Brussels Court of First Instance, the Court held that the decision to retreat from the facility was imputable only to the United Nations, to the exclusion of the Belgian authorities. Accordingly, the claims against the Belgian state were unfounded. The events—which inspired the movie Shooting Dogs (2005)—bear obvious similarities to the role of the United Nations Protection Force's (UNPROFOR) Dutch battalion (Dutchbat) in the evacuation of the Potoçari camp and the ensuing genocide of seven thousand Bosnian men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995. Like the Dutch judgments in the (more well-known) Mothers of Srebrenica proceedings, the Mukeshimana appellate judgment provides a rare national court precedent that considers the imputability of the conduct of peacekeepers to troop-contributing countries. The Mukeshimana judgment, however, raises a high bar for finding such imputability.

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Mukeshimana-Ngulinzira 和其他人诉比利时和其他人

1994 年 4 月 11 日，在卢旺达种族灭绝爆发后，一群比利时联合国维和人员放弃了他们寻求避难的学校设施，大约 2000 名男子、妇女和儿童被胡图族武装极端分子残忍杀害。将近四分之一世纪后，布鲁塞尔上诉法院（Court）于 2018 年 6 月 8 日结束了一些卢旺达幸存者和亲属对比利时指挥官和比利时政府提起的民事诉讼。法院推翻了布鲁塞尔初审法院早先的判决，认为撤离该设施的决定只能归咎于联合国，比利时当局除外。因此，针对比利时国家的索赔是没有根据的。激发电影灵感的事件射击狗（2005 年）——与联合国保护部队（联保部队）荷兰营（Dutchbat）在波托萨里营地的疏散以及随后 1995 年波斯尼亚塞族部队在斯雷布雷尼察对 7000 名波斯尼亚男子和男孩的种族灭绝中所起的作用具有明显的相似之处. 像荷兰人的判决书（比较有名的）斯雷布雷尼察的母亲诉讼程序向岛名上诉判决提供了一个罕见的国家法院先例，该先例将维和人员的行为归咎于部队派遣国。这向岛名然而，判断为找到这种可归责性提出了很高的标准。