Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has long been portrayed as the man who brought an end to the killing and rescued his country from oblivion. Now there are increasing questions about the role of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front forces in the dark days of 1994 and in the 20 years since.
Comments
This documentary may be complete bs. If it is not, then we must conclude that we were fed a lot of bs when the massacres were going on. Maybe for that to happen is rare. Who knows?
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/06/2014 - 8:08pm
It has long been known that there have been human rights violations in Rwanda since 1994, but that doesn't alter the fact that Tutsis were victims of genocide. There were atrocities against Hutus during the genocide, but there was no equivalence. 800,000 Tutsis were killed, over ninety percent of them noncombatants; 25,000 to 45,000 Hutus were killed, many of them combatants.
by Aaron Carine on Mon, 10/06/2014 - 9:01pm
I won't argue which numbers you believe. What struck me most was the difference in what is commonly believed, what is now accepted as history, from what is reported in this documentary. And, I acknowledge that my skepticism of what is commonly heard from our MSM needs be applied to all media. I am curious though, did you watch the documentary or are you going with figures from earlier?
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/06/2014 - 9:57pm
Going with numbers from earlier. Perhaps I'll watch the documentary.
by Aaron Carine on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 9:46pm
I can't get to the link, so maybe I won't be able to watch the documentary.
by Aaron Carine on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 9:47pm
The link still works for me but google had several places it could e seen. It is a recent BBC doc with the above title.
by LULU (not verified) on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:43am
Here is the article which first sparked my interest. It begins by noting what the author believes to be very poor previous journalism by the documentary's creator. It then goes on:
And here is one that is very critical of the BBC documentary. This author's judgment of Corbin, the documentary's creator, would probably be much like that expressed in the first paragraph in the above article.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 1:20pm