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Author Eltringham, Nigel.

Title Accounting for horror : post-genocide debates in Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 232 pages)
Contents 'Ethnicity' : the permeant debate -- The pre-cursor debate -- The holocaust : the comparative debate -- Debating collective guilt -- Unresolved allegations and the culture of impunity
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221) and index
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Subject Genocide -- Rwanda
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda
HISTORY.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
Atrocities
Ethnic relations
Genocide
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against
Völkermord
SUBJECT Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116783
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations
Subject Rwanda
Rwanda -- Bürgerkrieg.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435661158
143566115X
9781849644891
1849644896
128172534X
9781281725349
6611725342
9786611725341
Other Titles Post-genocide debates in Rwanda