03164nam 2200565 450 991078917760332120231206220904.01-77186-006-5(CKB)3710000000074171(EBL)1577479(SSID)ssj0001113145(PQKBManifestationID)12433048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113145(PQKBWorkID)11162492(PQKB)10885800(MiAaPQ)EBC1577479(Au-PeEL)EBL1577479(CaPaEBR)ebr10817504(CaONFJC)MIL550601(OCoLC)869092141(PPN)187314519(MiAaPQ)EBC30623656(EXLCZ)99371000000007417120131231d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRwanda and the new scramble for Africa from tragedy to useful imperial fiction /Robin PhilpotMontréal :Baraka Books,2013.1 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-926824-94-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CoverFormer 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 wGenocideRwandaHistory20th centuryRwandaHistoryCivil War, 1994GenocideHistory967.57104Philpot Robin1505245MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789177603321Rwanda and the new scramble for Africa3734720UNINA