La commémoration du génocide au Rwanda. Violence symbolique, mémorisation forcée et histoire officielle
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2004
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Claudine Vidal, « La commémoration du génocide au Rwanda. Violence symbolique, mémorisation forcée et histoire officielle », Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, ID : 10670/1.m06y7l
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Perpetrated only ten years ago, the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda resulted in numerous commemoration ceremonies that took place during the exhumation services, when thousands of bodies – mostly non-identified –, were officially re-buried. What was the role of these ceremonies in the Great Lakes' societies, where usually burial is not part of social tradition and even less so is public exposal of a dead body? Did these ceremonies represent a “necessary process of mourning”, did they open the way to reconciliation, or, on the contrary, did they re-open already existing tensions?