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| Varying Form of Title: | Post-genocide debates in Rwanda
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| ISBN: | 9781435661158
143566115X
9781849644891
1849644896
128172534X
9781281725349
6611725342
9786611725341
0745320015
9780745320014
0745320007
9780745320007
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-221) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| 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
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| Other form: | Print version: Eltringham, Nigel. Accounting for horror. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004
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