Some texts are worth reading, no matter how mediocre they are. Like a person who concludes a collective book Civil War. From the Renaissance to the presentdirected by Jean-Christophe Buisson and Jean Sévillia (Perrin-Le Figaro Magazine, 378 pages, 22 euros, digital 15 euros), a compendium devoted to the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda – between 800,000 and 1 million people died in the spring of 1994. The author, Frédéric Pons, former journalist in Current valuesindeed achieves a tour de force: concentrating in 20 pages all the specific biases of revisionism that, for more than thirty years, have tried to obscure the reality of the facts.
One way is to attach more or less explicit restrictions to it. If Frédéric Pons talks about genocide, he adds: this “tragedy (…) However, this is the culmination of a centuries-old story. What for ” However “ ? Which genocide was not preceded by centuries of history? This sentence has no clear meaning. But this had a function: to sow doubt about the specificity of the crime, by undermining the genocidal policy implemented by Hutu rule in historical continuity. Or the old moon, long dismissed by historians: the“Ancient antagonism between Tutsi and Hutu”.
The role of France
What is antagonistic is reciprocal, therefore the author can go back and forth from one camp to another, especially to emphasize his presence.“extremist” on both sides. However, Tutsi extremism, if it existed, did not lead to genocide. Hutu extremism, yes. It doesn’t matter to the author, who simply attempts to put these radical differences in perspective, by emphasizing the massacres committed by the Tutsi against the Hutu, without noting that they did not share the same standards regarding the number of victims and genocidal intent. A “deadly madness” universal will rule in this country. Under these conditions, how can we appoint those responsible?
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