[amakurunamateka.com] Re: *DHR* Rwanda's Memory Hole

 

The people who accuse the US of having played a role in Rwanda's genocide should choose their words carefully but still get the truth out as Ms. Judy Rever did in here recent article:

"Quite apart from the fact that the United States and Britain had been strategic military partners with the RPF before the genocide, what was behind the breathtaking display of cynicism that provided cover to Kagame, already a known quantity to satellite-wielding western intelligence services?

The ICTR's politically motivated justice was based on a kind of perverse rationality that can only be referred to as The Rwandan Experiment. The thinking at the time was that since the country had experienced a popular genocide—one in which Hutu extremists were willing to kill Tutsis in broad daylight and enlist a certain percentage of the civilian population to join in—Kagame and his brutal yet disciplined rebel force appeared be the best candidates to stave off further bloodletting. (A note of caution is needed here: while historians have been keen to use the word 'popular' to denote the active participation of Hutu civilians in carrying out murders against their Tutsi neighbors, the actual number of perpetrators is estimated to be 7 to 8 percent of the Hutu population, or 14 to 17 percent of the adult male Hutu population, according to the academic Scott Straus.)

The assumption that Kagame was a safer, more disciplined bet seemed to exclude the possibility of a third path that encouraged Hutu and Tutsi moderates. And it proved to be as dangerous as it was wrong. First, it failed to take into account the atrocities the RPA had already committed during a three-year invasion war that shed stark light into the nature of Kagame's brutal leadership. And, second, it proved devastating for millions of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo whose lives would be lost after his army invaded the country in 1996 and unleashed a war of epic proportions.", Judy Rever In Rwanda's Memory Hole | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/04/14/rwandas-memory-hole/

More info at:

Rwanda Re-Examined | National Security Archives
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB508/

Rwanda Revisited | Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/05/rwanda-revisited-genocide-united-states-state-department/

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From: "Lyarahoze Samuel lyar66@yahoo.fr [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>
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Subject: *DHR* Rwanda's Memory Hole

 

"Thousands of victims were dumped into mass graves in Giti, a commune that became a clearinghouse for murder. The RPA eventually ran out of spots to bury victims in the town and in neighboring Rutare, and had to load refugees onto trucks at night to transport them to Gabiro at the edge of the Akagera Park. The operations were eerily reminiscent of the rolling death wagons in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. The victims were eventually burned and incinerated.

A former senior RPA officer on site in Giti described scenes of depravity under the direction of Jackson Rwahama, second-in-command at DMI who had worked in military intelligence for Idi Amin in Uganda.

The officer recalled images of agony and horror: hundreds of peasants were piled on top of each other in a large open grave, some dying slowly, others already dead. Eyes flickered and bodies twitched until life was extinguished—collectively and completely."

Rwanda's Memory Hole | Foreign Policy Journal

				Rwanda's Memory Hole | Foreign Policy Journal How the state has intimidated, threatened, and murdered to cover up history
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