EARLY EPISODE: The Rwandan Genocide: Part 1
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Over the course of only around 100 days, horrific acts of violence, a genocide long in the making but seemingly deployed overnight, swept through the nation of Rwanda. This is the story and history of the Rwandan Genocide.
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Sources:
Scott Straus. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Scott Straus. Rwanda, RTLM, and Mass Media Effects.
Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season.
Philip Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.
Alison Des Forges. Leave None to Tell The Story: Genocide In Rwanda.
Rom茅o Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Case Files. https://unictr.irmct.org/en/cases
Comments (6)
Interesting to note the heightened paranoia felt by Rwandan Hutus after the 1972 genocide of hutus in Burundi by a Tutsi dominated government, the Ikiza. Up to 300,000 dead.
I'm finally feeling like I'm okay to get into this series. I'm not excited about the atrocities, but I like to be in the know, especially since while I didn't believe the racist lie about this being "an old tribal conflict", I wasn't really familiar with the actual causes.
My parents recently got a puppy to accompany their older dog. They were lucky to get a golden retriever puppy who was going to be a show dog (but has a minor kink in his tail, and dog showing is bullshit perfectionism) so he's already got a lot of training. House training a puppy is 100% the worst part of the experience of raising one, because you're constantly on edge making sure that they're not going to pee somewhere.
I tend to wait until a series is complete to listen to it. On this occasion, that may be a choice I come to regret.
God damn, dude
In Canada, we got more media about Romeo Dallaire's PTSD than about the genocide itself