The French Betrayal of Rwanda
Author: Daniela Kroslak
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat France could have done to prevent the killing in Rwanda
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The Role of France in the Rwandan Genocide
Author: Daniela Kroslak
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the historical and contextual background of the Rwandan genocide and French involvement in Africa. This book concludes by focusing on the fact that the 'Never Again' pledge does not only incorporate a duty in terms of prevention and suppression of genocide, but also encompasses responsible policies towards a post-genocidal regime.
A People Betrayed
Author: Linda Melvern
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1783602708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvents in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to respond. In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what happened. She holds governments to account, showing how individuals could have prevented what was happening and didn't do so. The book also reveals the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide, volunteer peacekeepers and those who ran emergency medical care. Fifteen years on, this new edition examines the ongoing impact of the 1948 Genocide Convention and the shock waves Rwanda caused around the world. Based on fresh interviews with key players and newly-released documents, A People Betrayed is a shocking indictment of the way Rwanda is and was forgotten and how today it is remembered in the West.
A People Betrayed
Author: Linda Melvern
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-07-25
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1350409669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of Linda Melvern's classic of investigative journalism reveals how policymakers continue to refuse to properly acknowledge their responsibilities under international law. The new edition includes copious new material reckoning with the information that came to light during the 2022 trial of Félicien Kabuga, the alleged financier of the genocide. This new evidence feeds not only into a revised chronology and a wholly new section on the build-up to the genocide, but also into a new appendix that lists the six major genocide memorial sites in Rwanda along with now-incontrovertible details of the massacres that occurred there. Throughout it all, Melvern reveals in unmatched detail the scale, speed, and intensity of the unfolding genocide, and she exposes the Western governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening if only they had chosen to act. What emerges is a shocking indictment of how Rwanda was ignored in 1994 and of how it is misremembered in the West today-an indictment that renders all the more poignant Melvern's accounts of the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the violence, from volunteer peacekeepers to NGO workers.
Silent Accomplice
Author: Andrew Wallis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0857723820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFULLY REVISED AND UPDATED The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly providing military, financial and diplomatic support to the genocidaires all along. Based on new interviews with key players and eye-witnesses, and previously unreleased documents, Walliss' book tells a story which many have suspected, but never seen set out before. France, Wallis discovers, was keen to defend its influence in Africa, even if it meant complicity in genocide, for as French President Francois Mitterrand once said: "in countries like that, genocide is not so important". Wallis's riveting expose of the French role in one of the darkest chapters of human history will provoke furious debate, denials, and outrage.
In Search of Rwanda's Génocidaires
Author: David Whitehouse (Journalist)
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781927079294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrance supported the Rwandan government which lost the war, culminating in the genocide of 1994. Many of the leading genocide suspects have lived quietly in France ever since. Twenty years later, the first French trial took place. In Search of Rwanda's Gnocidaires is an attempt at objectivity rather than advocacy. Accusers and accused state their case as they seek common points of reference in the world's most polarized controversy.
"Leave None to Tell the Story"
Author: Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 888
ISBN-13:
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Not My Time to Die
Author: Mukagasana, Yolande
Publisher: Huza Press
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9997772563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she’s a successful woman and a Tutsi, she flees for her life. This gripping memoir describes the betrayal of friends and help that comes from surprising places. Quick-witted and courageous, Yolande never loses hope she will find her children alive. "This book was one of the first literary testimonies that I read in French about Rwanda. I found it profoundly moving — both realistic and introspective. Thanks to this beautiful translation, it is at long last available to the English-speaking public." Véronique Tadjo "Reading Yolande Mukagasana’s book in French at the age of fifteen changed my life. I realized that genocide is not a mass crime but a single murder repeated hundreds of thousands of times. With this testimony the genocide is no longer just a historical event, it is instead the story of a woman, a mother, a Tutsi. And this is what makes Yolande’s account universal." Gaël Faye
Do Not Disturb
Author: Michela Wrong
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1610398432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister. Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination.
“A” Time for Machetes
Author: Jean Hatzfeld
Publisher:
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781852429881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn April-May 1994 in Rwanda, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens - more than 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. Jean Hatzfeld reports on the results of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers, all of whom are now in prison, some awaiting execution. Hatzfeld elicits extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. Each describes what it was like the first time he killed someone, what he felt like when he killed a mother and child, and how he reacted when he killed a cordial acquaintance. Each reflects on his feelings of moral responsibility, his guilt, remorse, or indifference to the crimes. Since the Holocaust, it has been conventional to presume that only depraved and monstrous evil incarnate could perpetrate such crimes, but it may be, Hatzfeld suggests, that such actions are within the realm of ordinary human conduct. To read this disturbing, enlightening and very brave book is to consider the foundation of human morality and ethics in a new light.
