The statistics were nothing new. Twelve years earlier, attending an academic conference in Kigali in December 2003, Stam and Davenport had mentioned their statistics to fellow scholars. There was general ‘astonishment and disbelief’, wrote Alison Des Forges from Human Rights Watch. Later, Des Forges emailed prosecution lawyers at the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania, and warned them to treat this new research with scepticism.
