Accounting for horror: post-genocide debates in Rwanda
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1. Verfasser: Eltringham, Nigel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Pluto Press 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221) and index
'Ethnicity' : the permeant debate -- The pre-cursor debate -- The holocaust : the comparative debate -- Debating collective guilt -- Unresolved allegations and the culture of impunity
"The 1994 Rwandan genocide was a monumental atrocity in which at least 500,000 Tutsi and tens of thousands of Hutu were murdered in less than four months. Since 1994, members of the Rwandan political class who recognize those events as genocide have struggled to account for them and bring coherence to what is often perceived as irrational, primordial savagery ... Drawing on extensive research among Rwandese in Rwanda and Europe, and on his work with a conflict resolution NGO in post-genocide Rwanda, Nigel Eltringham argues that conventional modes of historical representation are inadequate in a case like Rwanda. Single, absolutist narratives and representations of genocide actually reinforce the modes of thinking that fuelled the genocide in the first place. Eltringham maintains that if we are to understand the genocide, we must explore the relationship between multiple explanations of what happened and interrogate how -- and why -- different groups within Rwandan society talk about the genocide in different ways."--Book cover
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ISBN:143566115X
9781435661158

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