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1994 > Rwanda

 

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Rwanda:

25 ans après le génocide

Mediapart    13 June 2019

 

 

 

 

Rwanda: 25 ans après le génocide

Video    Mediapart    13 June 2019

 

Il y a un quart de siècle,

une logique génocidaire s'enclenchait

contre les Tutsis du Rwanda.

 

Dans cette séquence historique,

le rôle de la France fait toujours

l'objet de controverses.

 

On en parle

avec Fabrice Arfi (journaliste à Mediapart),

Justine Brabant (journaliste)

et Florent Piton (historien,

auteur de l’ouvrage «Le Génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda»).

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUhtLz6WcZ0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forgive or forget: survivors of genocide

in the Holocaust, Rwanda & Cambodia

G    27 January 2014

 

 

 

 

Forgive or forget:

survivors of genocide in the Holocaust, Rwanda & Cambodia

Video        G        27 January 2014

 

*Graphic Images*

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=KSgMLH4qKyQ&list=PLa_1MA_DEorGkBGoM7RIsnGMMKOitJZ0e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A refugee camp in Tanzania in 1994,

near the border with Rwanda.

 

Photograph: Gilles Peress

Magnum Photos

 

Rwanda Marks 25 Years Since the Genocide.

The Country Is Still Grappling With Its Legacy.

NYT

April 6, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/
world/africa/rwanda-genocide-25-years.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Rwandan girl sat among her family’s possessions

on the road to Goma, Zaire,

as she fled the factional violence.

 

Photograph: David Turnley

Corbis, via Getty Images

 

Rwanda Marks 25 Years Since the Genocide.

The Country Is Still Grappling With Its Legacy.

NYT

April 6, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/
world/africa/rwanda-genocide-25-years.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1994 > Rwanda        FR

 

Genocide,

Sexual violence in conflict / Wartime sex violence

 

(le) dernier génocide du XXe siècle

(...) a fait un million de morts en cent jours,

entre avril et juillet 1994.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/060423/
genocide-au-rwanda-le-general-francais-qui-dit-non

 

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/060423/
genocide-au-rwanda-le-general-francais-qui-dit-non

 

 

 

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/27/
l-exfiltration-d-agathe-habyarimana-figure-du-genocide-
une-priorite-pour-francois-mitterrand
_6074644_3212.html

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/260321/
la-france-et-le-genocide-des-tutsis-
des-responsabilites-lourdes-et-accablantes

 

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/03/26/
les-conclusions-du-rapport-de-la-commission-sur-le-rwanda-
un-ensemble-de-responsabilites-lourdes-et-accablantes-
pour-la-france
_6074595_3232.html

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/250321/
la-france-et-le-rwanda-qui-va-dire-l-histoire-enfin

 

 

 

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/dossier/
rwanda-vingt-cinq-ans-apres-le-genocide - 2019

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=nUhtLz6WcZ0 - Mediapart - 13 June 2019

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/060419/
rwanda-un-million-de-morts-et-une-tache-sur-le-drapeau-francais

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/060419/
genocide-des-tutsis-au-rwanda-l-histoire-en-terrain-mine

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/040419/
genocide-au-rwanda-les-trop-petits-gestes-d-emmanuel-macron

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=50uxB_RNfUw - Médiapart 12 July 2017

 

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Jx5cdP1WU-w - Médiapart - 16 May 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rwanda        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/12/
americas-secret-role-in-the-rwandan-genocide

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/12/
rwanda-genocide-20-years-on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rwanda        USA

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/
1247869437/rwanda-genocide-anniversary-hutu-tutsi

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/
world/africa/rwanda-paul-rusesabagina.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/
891815028/rwandas-genocide-ended-26-years-ago-
survivors-are-still-finding-mass-graves

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/07/
710821937/rwandas-genocide-victims-remembered-25-years-later

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/
world/africa/rwanda-genocide-25-years.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/
world/africa/genocide-commemorations-begin-in-rwanda-
with-curtailed-french-role.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1994 > Rwanda

 

 

 

How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood

 

JAN. 24, 2015

the New York Times

SundayReview

Opinion

By DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN

 

AUSCHWITZ was liberated 70 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, and news of its existence shocked the world. With its principal killing center at one of its main camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, becoming fully operational in 1942, it was Germany’s largest and the most notorious extermination site. There the Germans slaughtered approximately 1.1 million people, a million of whom were Jews. Its mention evokes notions of evil and instant horror. Auschwitz was a death factory, an oxymoron that would have made no sense before the Holocaust, but that now is effortlessly comprehensible.

But Auschwitz is also misunderstood — and that misunderstanding distorts what we think about the Holocaust, and about the Nazis themselves.

Historical and popular accounts of the Holocaust tend to emphasize its brutal, bureaucratic efficiency, with Auschwitz as its technological pinnacle, whose industrial scale was not only emblematic of, but also necessary for, its success. But as existentially troubling as Auschwitz was and is, and as lethally portentous as it would have been had Nazi Germany won World War II, it was technically unnecessary for the commission of the Holocaust.

Had the Nazis never created gassing installations at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor and elsewhere, they would still have killed around the same number of Jews and non-Jews. About half of the roughly six million Jews whom the Germans and their European collaborators slaughtered, and virtually all the millions of non-Jews the Germans murdered, they killed by nonindustrial means, mainly by shooting or starving them to death.

The cliché “assembly line killing” belies the fact that rounding up Jews and shipping them, sometimes for many hundreds of miles, to a death factory was far less efficient than merely killing them where the Germans found them. The Nazi leadership created death factories not for expeditious reasons, but to distance the killers from their victims.

Previous and subsequent genocidal assaults also belie the once reflexively intoned notion that modern technology made the Holocaust possible. Regimes and their executioners around the globe have conducted broad eliminationist assaults against targeted peoples, with the perpetrators’ using a variety of means, including mass murder, expulsion, forced conversion and the prevention of reproduction to rid themselves of hated or unwanted groups. In Rwanda in 1994, the Hutu perpetrators killed 800,000 Tutsi at a more intensive daily rate than the Germans did the Jews, using only the most primitive technological means, mainly machetes, knives and clubs.

Focusing on Auschwitz’s mechanistic qualities as a precondition for the Holocaust’s vast destructiveness allows people to see the Nazis’ eliminationism as something uniquely modern — to believe that it takes a technically proficient, bureaucratically expert state to carry out such violence. And even though we all recognize that genocides can be unleashed without such advanced systems, people still too often assume that true eliminationism, with the intention of completely destroying another group, takes a relatively rare constellation of a state apparatus and technological means.
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But that’s not true. To understand the politics of mass murder and eliminationism, the technical means of carrying out the deed are almost never the central issue. Rather, the crucial elements are the political leaders’ decision to commit genocide, the willing participation of a large population of perpetrators, the sympathy of an even broader civilian population — in the case of the Holocaust, principally ordinary Germans, but also many other Europeans — and, above all, the ideology that motivates them all to believe that annihilating the targeted people is necessary and right.

This, rather than its technical specifications, is why Auschwitz is so important. Auschwitz is a symbol of the broader, and little understood, racist revolution that the Germans were bringing about in Europe that sought to overturn the fundamentals of Western civilization, including its core notion of a common humanity.

The gassing installations that became Auschwitz’s emblem were but one part of Auschwitz’s system of more than 40 camps and sub-camps. These were run by thousands of German overlords who drove and brutalized hundreds of thousands of Jews, Russians and other “subhumans,” whom they used as slaves to work under horrifying conditions in the camps’ extensive and varied production facilities, making everything from agricultural products to chemicals to armaments.

Auschwitz was thus much more than just the gas chambers and crematories — taken as a whole, it was a microcosm, not so much of the specific mechanisms of the Holocaust, but of the Nazis’ ideological vision of a world to be ruled by a master race, resting on the collective graves of the Jewish people and of tens of millions of additional victims the Germans deemed demographically expendable, and served by an enormous population of slaves. It reveals that during the Holocaust, mass annihilation, as genocide always is, was part of a larger eliminationist agenda and, at its core, a mechanism for social and political transformation.

This commonality notwithstanding, Auschwitz still had its singular quality: It expressed the Nazis’ unparalleled vision that denied a common humanity everywhere, and global intent to eliminate or subjugate all nonmembers of the “master race.” Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and the man most responsible for putting the Germans’ plans in action, proudly announced in an address in 1943: “Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only insofar as we need them as slaves for our culture.”

Such was the Nazis’ moral and mental mutation, the most profound in the history of Europe, that Auschwitz was built upon, and that, better than any other place, it symbolizes. When Europe’s leaders assemble at Auschwitz on Tuesday for the 70th anniversary commemoration, they should of course remember and mourn the Jewish and non-Jewish victims. They should also realize that they are gazing into the abyss that would have consumed their Continent and the world.

 

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is the author of “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust” and, most recently, “The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Anti-Semitism.”

A version of this news analysis appears in print on January 25, 2015, on page SR3 of the New York edition with the headline: How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood.

How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood,
NYT,
JAN 24, 2015,
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/
sunday-review/how-auschwitz-is-misunderstood.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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