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Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century

By Johan Pottier

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0521528739, 9780521528733, 0521813662, 9780521813662, 9780511064791
LCC
DT450.435 .P68 2002
Google Books ID
iRz_QzoVdJcC
Open Library ID
OL3670697M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1776393 bytes)
Pages
276\274
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media, diplomats and aid workers struggling to make sense of the bloodshed. This study shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda managed to impose a simple, persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators, and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. It is a sobering analysis of how simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis.

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