Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century Destexhe, Alain

  • Pluto Press
  • Year of publishing: 1994
  • Place of publishing: London
  • ISBN: 0745310419
  • Language: English
  • Series: first

Alain Destexhe, generální sekretář humanitární organizace Doktoři bez Hranic, napadá ignoraci světa vůči rwandské tragédii. Podle jeho názoru termín "genocida" ztratil svůj význam kvůli jeho nadměrnému použití a tvrdí, že cílené masakry Tutsiů a Hutuů ve Rvandě skutečně jsou genocidou, stejně tak jako plánované vyhlazení Arménců nebo evropských Židů. Následně popisuje, jak koloniální politika poštvala Hutuy proti Tutsiům a ukazuje, že tyto dva národy "nemohou být dokonce ani nazývány etnickými skupinami, protože mluví stejným jazykem a respektují stejné tradice a taboo. Autor také podrobně líčí, jak vůdci Hutuů v reakci na ekonomické strádání a demokratické reformy učinili své rivaly terčem nespokojenosti. Obviňuje Západní velmoci z poskytnutí pouhé nominální humanitární pomoci, zatímco odmítali zasáhnout a zastavit tak masakr asi 500 000 Tutsiů (asi polovinu jejich populace). Autor požaduje, aby byly ustanoveny mezinárodní tribunály a navrhuje, aby se v budoucnu humanitární organizace mnohem agresivněji snažily přinutit státy k akci.

In this important primer, Destexhe, secretary-general of the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, assails world complacency about the tragedy in Rwanda. The term "genocide" has been inflated by reckless use, he states, arguing strongly that the targeted massacres of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda qualifies--along with the planned exterminations of Armenians and of European Jews--as genocide. He then describes how colonial policies set Hutu against Tutsi, and states that the two peoples "cannot really even be described as ´ethnic groups´ for they both speak the same language and respect the same traditions and taboos." He also recounts how Hutu leaders, in response to economic straits and calls for democratic reforms, scapegoated their rivals. He scores Western governments for providing only nominally "humanitarian'" support while refusing to intervene to halt massacres, estimating that 500,000 Tutsis, or half the total Tutsi population, were killed. He calls for international tribunals to seek justice and suggests that, in the future, humanitarian groups should more aggressively try to force states to act.

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