A Montreal based conference will tomorrow (Saturday, 29th March) play host to four “minimizers” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The revisionists dispute the version of events officially recognised by the UN, in which up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred over the course of about 100 days.
French journalist Pierre Pean, Spanish lawyer Jordi Palou-Loverdos, Belgian journalist Peter Verlinden and Canadian author Robin Philpot are all speaking at the conference.
Pean and his publisher faced charges of racial slander and provocation in France after his 2005 book on the Rwandan genocide, entitled “Noires Fureurs, Blancs Menteurs” (Black Furies, White Liars), claimed that Tutsis organised a counter-genocide of Hutus – the international community has long accepted that Tutsis were the main target of massacres.
The Canadian Press quoted William Schabas, a human rights expert, as saying, “I believe in open debate and historical inquiry but there are facts that are so obvious that when people start denying them, it’s very similar to Holocaust denial.”
The most damning criticism of the revisionists has been from Luc-Normand Tellier, a professor at the Université du Quebec in Montréal (UQAM), who previously taught in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.
In an article reviewing Philpot’s “Ca ne s’est pas passe comme ça a Kigali” (It Did Not Happen Like That in Kigali), Tellier accuses the Canadian author of genocide denial:
Nowhere in the book did Mr Philpot show any compassion towards the 500,000 to one million victims of the Genocide. Nowhere does he look to understand why Tutsi refugees in Uganda had several times tried to come back to their country.
What scandalized me the most in Mr Philpot’s book is that each time he speaks about these Rwandan refugees, the author calls them rebels, invaders, aggressors or foreign army…
What wrong had a human group been doing to the point that one tries to liquidate it? What wrongs? What wrongs? What wrongs? Mr Philpot, answer!
In the name of these hundreds of thousands of victims, who truly died in atrocious conditions in the context of a genocide that you are trying to negate; in the name of all my former students who were killed, I summon you to answer.
Tellingly, tomorrow’s conference comes soon before the 14th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
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Curiously the interface between scientists and the public has a fair few people who have questioned the Rwandan genocide in the past…
“A conference called by a group of well known deniers of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda ended in chaos Saturday in the Canadian city of Montréal. Hundreds of people, many of them Rwandans living in Canada, carried placards and heckled the organisers of the conference.”
Source here: http://allafrica.com/stories/200803310587.html
I’m not clear why this is tagged “postmodernism.” Telling odious lies to cover-up or excuse atrocities is a time-honored tradition that predates “postmodern theory.” While there are liars who borrow trendy postmodern phrases to spice up their rhetoric- but that’s what liars have always done: use little-understood concepts to obscure the extent of their lies.
Anyway– I think that goes for most of the articles tagged “postmodernism” here.
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I dont condone what happened in Rwanda since 1990s until now but have uever asked where did millions of hutus from northern and southern rwanda go?please all of us lost our beloved relatives in bloody chilly killing of RPF but u never called it genocide while the hutus killed by RPF are nearing 4million.please give us a break we want justice done then reconciliation otherwise.there is still war in rwanda
What’s so annoying about Rwanda is that at the time there was millions of soldiers sitting about twiddling their thumbs in garrisons around the world, many of them decent, well-trained, responsible men. Why were they not flown to the zone in question when the warning signs were heard and seen, blue berets and armbands given to them and the simple task of stopping mass-murder their number one priority? In Europe alone hundreds of thousands of military personnel were in a position to be deployed but yet again the politicos let humanity down, the corrupt, inept, self-serving, US-dominated, mealy-mouthed politicos of all description let the world down yet again. The soldiers would have went, put aside their national insignia for the insignia of the UN, deployed weapons and expertise that would have had the mass-murderers shitting themselves. But the politicos would have had to give them the green light … but they didn’t, for whatever reason of their own, they didn’t. This could have been avoided as we have the military might to swamp any area of the globe with enough weapons and personnel to deter any local tyrant or tribal conflict. Maybe the Rwandans were just too black and just way too poor to bother with … Ask Clinton what he did to help? Maybe he was too busy getting his cock sucked to care …
A Montreal based conference will tomorrow (Saturday, 29th March) play host to four “minimizers” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The revisionists dispute the version of events officially recognised by the UN, in which up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred over the course of about 100 days.
French journalist Pierre Pean, Spanish lawyer Jordi Palou-Loverdos, Belgian journalist Peter Verlinden and Canadian author Robin Philpot are all speaking at the conference.
Pean and his publisher faced charges of racial slander and provocation in France after his 2005 book on the Rwandan genocide, entitled “Noires Fureurs, Blancs Menteurs” (Black Furies, White Liars), claimed that Tutsis organised a counter-genocide of Hutus – the international community has long accepted that Tutsis were the main target of massacres.
The Canadian Press quoted William Schabas, a human rights expert, as saying, “I believe in open debate and historical inquiry but there are facts that are so obvious that when people start denying them, it’s very similar to Holocaust denial.”
The most damning criticism of the revisionists has been from Luc-Normand Tellier, a professor at the Université du Quebec in Montréal (UQAM), who previously taught in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.
In an article reviewing Philpot’s “Ca ne s’est pas passe comme ça a Kigali” (It Did Not Happen Like That in Kigali), Tellier accuses the Canadian author of genocide denial:
Nowhere in the book did Mr Philpot show any compassion towards the 500,000 to one million victims of the Genocide. Nowhere does he look to understand why Tutsi refugees in Uganda had several times tried to come back to their country.
What scandalized me the most in Mr Philpot’s book is that each time he speaks about these Rwandan refugees, the author calls them rebels, invaders, aggressors or foreign army…
What wrong had a human group been doing to the point that one tries to liquidate it? What wrongs? What wrongs? What wrongs? Mr Philpot, answer!
In the name of these hundreds of thousands of victims, who truly died in atrocious conditions in the context of a genocide that you are trying to negate; in the name of all my former students who were killed, I summon you to answer.
Tellingly, tomorrow’s conference comes soon before the 14th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
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