The Rwanda Crisis
by G??rard Prunier
Book Summary Information
Author: G??rard PrunierEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-15
ISBN: 023110409X
Number of pages: 389
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Reviews of The Rwanda Crisis
Book Review: A good informatiove book on a very difficult subject
Summary: 4 Stars
The book contains most of tha data useful to get an idea of the event of the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and of the complexity involved in the whole area of the Great Lakes. The crisis is still there even if the media stopped talking about it. My point is that history is usually manipulated to charge events with passion and Mr. Prunier, tries to keep out of this game as well as possible. He does so - and this is an answer to to those readers who finds it a pitty not to express emotions in this case - because he is aware of the hot climate in which this event is being regarded. Scholars, journalists, people, press and governements draw from the history of Rwanda and from the stereotypes of Africa not to explain what (the facts) happened in 1994, but to impose their own opinion every time, to justify their position. We had enough of this! I really appreciate that Mr. Prunier does his best in not participating to the emotional game. We need to set out the facts in a clear way, this is the only way to discuss. I can understand that it might be hard for someone, expecially for rwandese whose family suffered in the massacres to accept this "cold observer from the outside", still I would like to ask these people to recall all the occasions in which precisely emotional arguments created trouble in that little state in the middle of Africa, and in the world's politics...
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