In praise of blood : the crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front / Judi Rever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rever, Judi, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rwanda--Politics and government--1994-.

Rwanda.

Politics and government.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.

History.

Atrocities.

Kagamé, Paul, 1957-.

Kagamé, Paul.

Genocide--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Random House Canada, [2018]

Summary:

"A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviours who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region. Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshalled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994--the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. And she proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land. This book is heartbreaking, chilling and necessary."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: against the grain

Kagame's inner station

The rationale for war

Rwanda digs in

Going for broke

The deep structures of RPF violence

Getting away with mass murder at the Byumba Stadium

Kagame's roving death squads

The Tutsi fifth column

Spinning lies from truth

Scenes from a counterinsurgency

An illegal deal

The consequences of betrayal

The assassination of Habyarimana

Becoming a target

The signs were there from the beginning

Conclusion: remembering the dead

Appendices : Structure of RPF violence from 1994 through the counterinsurgency

The criminals of the Rwandan Patriotic Front

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-267) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Rever, Judi, author. In praise of blood.

ISBN:

9780345812094

0345812093

OCLC:

1030240106