Rethinking the Rwandan Narrative for the 25th Anniversary-
Gerald Caplan
"Twenty-five years after the notorious genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi, heated arguments still prevail about key aspects of the event.
At the moment, the greatest dispute concerns the behavior of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (#FPR), the mostly-Tutsi rebel group that drove the genocidaires from the country and ended up ruling Rwanda to this day. (...)
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"The prevailing school of historiography, one embraced by a majority of scholars and promoted ceaselessly by the RPF government under President Paul Kagame, sees the RPF army as an exemplary, well-trained, and highly disciplined force, the very antithesis of the genocidaires.
But a growing group of scholars and journalists now insist that the RPF were in every way as cruel, vicious, and murderous as were the anti-Tutsi conspirators themselves. (...)
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"..But a growing group of scholars and journalists now insist that the RPF were in every way as cruel, vicious, and murderous as were the anti-Tutsi conspirators them selves.
This paper examines these arguments and makes some recommendations."
(Cette synthèse de 39 pages écrite par un universitaire anglais spécialiste de l'histoire africaine a été publiée en 2019, au moment de la sortie du livre de Judy Rever "l'éloge du sang" qui faisait état des crimes du FPR. )
Jérôme ابو عادل Singirankabo