D'un génocide à l'autre. Des références à la Shoah dan s les approches scientifiques du génocide des Tutsi

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The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews, helped create a genocidal ideology, that appeared several decades before the tragedy of 1994. Beyond such parallelism, the author forces us to re-consider how genocidal violence makes us re-think our existing intellectual and conceptual frameworks. In particular, the group identity of the victims, i.e. as a people, a race, or a “conceptual race”? The author finally suggests we should differentiate clearly between “to know and to understand”. Kalisky argues that to understand is quite inadequate when a policy of genocide is applied. This, since it seems to justify it, and uses such inexistent justification when it only has causes.