Reddit reviews Re-Imagining Rwanda (African Studies)
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I hope that anyone reading the above comment is as disgusted as I am.
Your thinking is parochial and dangerous...you are on the brinks of suggesting a 'counter-genocide'.
The 1994 Genocide, took place in the context of a much larger Civil War and Regional Conflict. It was terrible, however hundreds of thousands of Hutus were killed as well. The situation was complicated and finding out the 'truth' about what really happened becomes more complicated the further away we become from the events.
My suggestion to anyone interested in finding out more information is to check out some of the works that explore what happened in Rwanda, and how it is today....
Pottier's Re-Imagining Rwanda, or
Straus & Waldorf's Remaking Rwanda, or
Clark and Kaufman's After Genocide are good places to start.
In addition to Rwanda's role in the violence in Congo, we must be critical of the human rights deterioration and crackdown on speech and politic opposition in Rwanda by Kagame's government which has been evidenced by any of these reports Amnesty International has conducted on Rwanda.
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Really glad to hear it. Her larger (but generally similar) work, The Trouble with the Congo, is widely available as an e-book. I was able to borrow it as such from my local public library.
You probably already know, but some great relatively academic DRC resources are:
It’s obviously not about DRC proper, but Re-Imagining Rwanda, by J. Pottier, really helped me cut through a lot of the misleading rhetoric about the Rwandese side of things and understand just how much this is an information war. It gets pretty controversial and I wouldn’t believe everything it implies.