Rwanda 1994
Subtitle: the myth of the Akazu genocide conspiracy and its consequences
By: Barrie Collins
Series: Rethinking political violence
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781137022318
Subjects: Völkermord; Rwanda; Genocide; Atrocities; History
Description: This book draws attention to what is intangible to the majority, namely an alternative version of the events that took place in Rwanda before and during 1994, including cease-fire violations, human rights abuses, killings and other abuses, all of which were committed by the RPF. The book is the first of its kind to deconstruct the dominant narrative of the circumstances leading up to, and during, the period defined as the Rwandan genocide, highlighting the suppression of evidence that runs contrary to the dominant narrative. It controversially questions the accepted wisdom of the events using a revisionist interrogation of the evidence, aiming to provide the most robust and academically credible investigation on the issue of the Rwandan genocide through an interrogation of all the claims made to support the genocide thesis. The author adopts a logical-historical approach which aims to situate the killings within a historically-specific context, drawing out a dynamic interplay between national and international actors to provide the most empirically detailed and forthright investigation of the butchery of Rwanda's Tutsis, and the perpetrators.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The tipping point; title: 2. Apocalypse 1994; title: 3. The Kingdom, the Colony and the Republics: Ethnicity in Perspective; title: 4. The RPF's War; title: 5. The Myth of the "Akazu" Genocide Conspiracy; title: 6. Hate Speech, the Audience and Mass Killings; title: 7. Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention in the 20th Century; title: 8. Consequences.