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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818739003321

Autore

Philpot Robin

Titolo

Rwanda and the new scramble for Africa : from tragedy to useful imperial fiction / / Robin Philpot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal : , : Baraka Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-77186-006-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

967.57104

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART 1; Invasion? What Invasion?; In the Name of Peaceand Democracy; The Power of a Word; Scouts at Her Majesty's Service; A Coup by Any Other Name...; It Shall Be Called a Plane Crash; How Is the Empire?; PART 2; The Heart of Dark Imaginations; Power to Those Who Have It! - Philip Gourevitch; The Importance of Being Canadian - Carol Off; Sunday at the Cesspool - Gil Courtemanche; An Avatar of Colonial Europe - Colette Braeckman; PART 3; International Criminal Justiceas "Battering Ram"

From his Rwandan home, Banished a Wand'rer Came"Watch out for Africa!" Closing in on the Congo; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix I: Interview with Captain Amadou Deme "Shock and Awe" in Kigali, April 1994; Appendix II: Human Rights Watch and Alison Des Forges VS Rwandan Delegation in New York, May 1994; Index; More from Baraka Books; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where do these two contradictory narratives come from? Which is true? Robin Philpot's vast and methodical research, extensive interviews, and close analysis of



events, testimony in courts, and popular w