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Thursday, 4 April 2013

Fw: [AfricaWatch] Rwanda: What Really Happened in 1994?


Je suis surpris qu' au moins il y a des chercheurs qui ont aborde cette vérité. Malgré les Dr, PhD ,Prof, Chercheurs, scholars, media   (dont certains existent  grâce au financent de Kagame tel que  Jeune Afrique ) de toute sorte qui ont écrit des ouvrages, des articles et dont certains assistent aux discussions de ces furums , personne n'a osé analyser les chiffres de génocide. Félicitations pour ces courageux chercheurs qui cherchent pour trouver la vérité.  Depuis bientôt 20 ans , Kagamé a continué a d'utiliser les chiffres de génocide pour discriminer les Hutu, pour se maintenir au pouvoir et donner toutes le avantages économiques et politiques  la minorité Tutsi. Ca fait bientôt qu'on le laisse continuer dans la même logique.
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What Really Happened in Rwanda?

Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out.
 
 
 
Here are some excerpts:
 
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The first significant negative publicity associated with our project occurred in November 2003 at an academic conference in Kigali. The National University of Rwanda had invited a select group of academics, including our team, to present the results of research into the 1994 murders. We had been led to believe that the conference would be a private affair, with an audience composed of academics and a small number of policymakers.
 
As it turned out, the conference was anything but small or private. It was held at a municipal facility in downtown Kigali, and our remarks would be simultaneously translated from English into French and the Rwandan language, Kinyarwanda. There were hundreds of people present, including not just academics but members of the military, the cabinet and other members of the business and political elite.
 
We presented two main findings, the first derived from spatial and temporal maps of data obtained from the different sources already mentioned. The maps showed that, while killing took place in different parts of the country, it did so at different rates and magnitudes — begging for an explanation we did not yet have. The second finding came out of a comparison of official census data from 1991 to the violence data we had collected. According to the census, there were approximately 600,000 Tutsi in the country in 1991; according to the survival organization Ibuka, about 300,000 survived the 1994 slaughter. This suggested that out of the 800,000 to 1 million believed to have been killed then, more than half were Hutu. The finding was significant; it suggested that the majority of the victims of 1994 were of the same ethnicity as the government in power. It also suggested that genocide — that is, a government's attempts to exterminate an ethnic group — was hardly the only motive for some, and perhaps most, of the killing that occurred in the 100 days of 1994.
 
Halfway into our presentation, a military man in a green uniform stood up and interrupted. The Minister of Internal Affairs, he announced, took great exception to our findings. We were told that our passport numbers had been documented, that we were expected to leave the country the next day and that we would not be welcomed back into Rwanda — ever. Abruptly, our presentation was over, as was, it seemed, our fieldwork in Rwanda.
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