Featured Guest(s):
Michael Hourigan, Terry Pickard
This week's program features interviews with Michael Hourigan and Terry Pickard. Michael Hourigan, headed UN investigation into 1994 assassination of Rwandan & Burundi Presidents. The findings of his team were suppressed. Terry Pickard is the author of "Combat Medic: An Australian's Account of the Kibeho Massacre".
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Big Sky Publishing - Publisher of "Combat Medic"
Featured Guest(s):
Peter Zaduk, Michael Hourigan
Prominent Toronto criminal lawyer, Peter Zaduk, talks about his work at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Michael Hourigan, UN investigator who was ordered by Louise Arbour to close his investigation of the assasination of Rwanda's President, urges listeners to ask Why?
The show featured a repeat of interviews with Dave Zirin and Michael Hourigan from November 27th 2006.
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Original Broadcast
Dave Zirin on Racism. Michael Hourigan - the evidence says Kagame did it.
Featured Guest(s):
Dave Zirin, Michael Hourigan
Links:
EdgeOfSports.com
UN prosecution investigator for the ICTR speaks about the event that triggered the war in Rwanda. Zirin on Zidane.
Featured Guest(s):
Michael Hourigan, Dave Zirin
We speak with Michael Hourigan, who led the UN investigation into the war-triggering murder of two African Presidents. His investigation was stopped by Louise Arbour.
We talk to Dave Zirin about the, now infamous, french soccer superstar - Zidane.
Links:
EdgeOfSports.com
April 6 1994 is the fateful date of the beginning of the war/genocide/massacres in Rwanda. The plane of President Habyarimana was shot down over the capital city, Kigali, and horrific violence unfolded.
Everyone is asked/ordered to remember (and then told what to remember). Official memory in Rwanda is under the authority of the former Ugandan General and now Rwandan President Paul Kagame, warmly supported by prominent names from the Anglosphere like America's UN ambassador, Samantha Powers (she was not a witness but has no trouble filling pages at great length about the vast lessons to be learned).
On the night of the 6th Kagame, by all accounts, ordered his Rwandan Patriotic Forces (RPF) into attack that very same night, though there was a peace accord in pl...
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Like Gerald Caplan's hostile "review" of our book, The Politics of Genocide, Adam Jones's aggressive attack on our response to Caplan can be explained in significant part by Jones's deep commitment to an establishment narrative on the Rwandan genocide that we believe to be false -- one that misallocates the main responsibility for that still ongoing disaster, but dominates by virtue of political interests and intellectual conformity.1 Caplan devoted perhaps 5 percent of his "review" to our book, and the remaining 95 percent to an attack on us for our treatment of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Jones went Caplan one better, ignoring our book altogether (which at the time of his writing Jones did not appear to ha...
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In his June 17 "review" of our book The Politics of Genocide, for Pambazuka News,1 Gerald Caplan, a Canadian writer who Kigali's New Times described as a "leading authority on Genocide and its prevention,"2 focuses almost exclusively on the section we devote to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.3 Caplan s
Like Gerald Caplan's hostile "review" of our book, The Politics of Genocide, Adam Jones's aggressive attack on our response to Caplan can be explained in significant part by Jones's deep commitment to an establishment narrative on the Rwandan genocide that we believe to be false -- one that misal...
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ARUSHA TZ – 18/12: Today’s ICTR judgments in the Military-I trial completely rejected the Prosecution theory of long-term planning and conspiracy to commit genocide by members of the former Rwandan military leadership. All four defendants were found “not guilty” of all counts charging conspiracy to commit genocide, based on the Chambers ruling that their actions prior to April 6, 1994 were based on war-time conditions, not planning to kill civilians or to carry out a genocide against Tutsi Rwandans.
Gen. Gratien Kabiligi was found not guilty of all remaining charges because of the Prosecution’s failure to prove his command authority over Rwandan troops, and was ordered released immediately.
The three other defendants were convicted of responsibility for pa...
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The Taylor Report is pleased to bring you Rwanda 1994: Colonialism dies hard, the english translation of Robin Philpot's book Ça ne s’est pas passé comme ça à Kigali. We are now also hosting the german version - Ruanda 1994 - die inszenierte Tragödie - translated by Klaus Madersbacher.
Text from the back cover:
Right thinking people would have us blindly believe the Official Story that the Rwandan tragedy was simply the work of horrible Hutu génocidaires who planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. On the other hand, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to the author that the “Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility. How can such contradictory interpretations coexist?
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