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Listen to the podcast with Philip Drew and Bruce Oswald In Rwanda
Revisited: Genocide, Civil War, and the Transformation of
International Law, the contributing authors seek to recount,
explore, and explain the tragedy that was the Rwanda genocide and
the nature of the international community's entanglement with it.
Written by people selected for their personalized knowledge of
Rwanda, be it as peacekeepers, aid workers, or members of the ICTR,
and/or scholarship that has been clearly influenced by the
genocide, this book provides a level of insight, detail and
first-hand knowledge about the genocide and its aftermath that is
clearly unique. Included amongst the writers are a number of
scholars whose research and writings on Rwanda, the United Nations,
and genocide are internationally recognized. Contributors are:
Major (ret'd) Brent Beardsley, Professor Jean Bou, Professor Jane
Boulden, Dr. Emily Crawford, Lieutenant-General the Honourable
Romeo Dallaire, Professor Phillip Drew, Professor Mark Drumbl ,
Professor Jeremy Farrall, Lieutenant-General John Frewen, Dr.
Stacey Henderson, Professor Adam Jones, Ambassador Colin Keating,
Professor Robert McLaughlin, Linda Melvern, Dr. Melanie O'Brien,
Professor Bruce Oswald, Dr. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Professor David
J. Simon, and Professor Andrew Wallis. This book was previously
published as Special Issue of the Journal of International
Peacekeeping, Volume 22 (2018), Issue 1-4 (published April 2020);
with updated Introduction.
'Mowed them down wholesale!' With these words, a judge summed up
the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia.
Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant
prospector at this isolated station by local Warlpiri triggered a
series of police-led expeditions that ranged over vast areas for
two months, as the hunting parties shot down victims by the dozen.
The official death toll, declared by the whitewash federal inquiry
as being all in self-defence, was 31. The real number was certainly
multiples of that. Coniston has never before been fully researched
and recorded; with this book that absence in Australia's history is
now filled. As the last great mass killing in our country's
genocidal past but an event largely unremembered, it reminds us
that, without truth, there can be no reconciliation.
Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global
capitalist development. James Tyner reinterprets the place of
agriculture under the Khmer Rouge, positioning it in new ways
relative to Marxism, capitalism, and genocide. The Cambodian
revolutionaries' agricultural management is widely viewed by
critics as irrational and dangerous, and it is invoked as part of
wider efforts to discredit leftist movements. Researching the
specific functioning of Cambodia's transition from farms to
agriculture within the context of the global economy, Tyner comes
to a different conclusion. He finds that analysis of "actually
existing political economy"-as opposed to the Marxist
identification the Khmer Rouge claimed-points to overlap between
Cambodian practice and agrarian capitalism.Tyner argues that
dissolution of the traditional Khmer family farm under the aegis of
state capitalism is central to any understanding of the mass
violence unleashed by the Khmer Rouge. Seen less as a radical
outlier than as part of a global shift in farming and food
politics, the Cambodian tragedy imparts new lessons to our
understanding of the political economy of genocide.
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