The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo | openDemocracy - 0 views
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This book and Noam Chomsky’s foreword inadvertently show just how multi-directional the politics of genocide have become. It is true that official western propagandists minimise “our” crimes and represent those of “our” enemies in over-simplified ways, and that such legerdemain merits exposure. But it also clear that anti-western propagandists - Herman, Peterson and Chomsky among them - are guilty of the same evasions and distortions from the “other” side.
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The journalist John Pilger endorses The Politics of Genocide on its cover by saying that Herman and Peterson “defend the right of all of us to a truthful historical memory”. This important right can never be exercised by treating the men and boys of Srebrenica, the massacred and expelled Kosovo Albanians, and the slaughtered Rwandan Tutsis as “unworthy victims”. For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of “truthful historical memory”.
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For starters, when there's bound to be money to be had in "Blood Diamonds", there are about 7 different states involved, NOT JUST RWANDA. To try to paint Herman and Pilger, et al as complicit in some sort of revisionism is a monstrous distortion by Martin Shaw and his now widely discredited book's thesis of the collapse of Interstate war with his favourite cronies in the Pentagon being exmplars of all things peaceful in an extremely violent world.