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Accounting for Horror - Post-genocide Debates in Rwanda (Hardcover)
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Accounting for Horror - Post-genocide Debates in Rwanda (Hardcover)
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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 it and bring coherence to what is often perceived as
irrational, primordial savagery.Most people agree on the factors
that contributed to the genocide -- colonialism, ethnicity, the
struggle to control the state. However, many still disagree over
the way these factors evolved, and the relationship between them.
This continuing disagreement raises questions about how we come to
understand historical events -- understandings that underpin the
possibility of sustainable peace.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.
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