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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Disturbing but fascinating,
This review is from: Accounting For Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda (Paperback)
Ten years ago horrific stories began to emerge from Rwanda. Almost a million people had been brutally murdered in a few short months. Men, women and children had been butchered in the most revolting way in massacres of tens of thousands. The savagery of the genocide appeared to exceed even that of the Nazis. How could this possibly have happened - again? And where was the United Nations? Surely they had been set up after the Second World War precisely to stop this kind of thing ever happening again? The UN, it seemed, had shepherded the victims into so-called `safe' areas, only to abandon them later to their dreadful fate.
Accounting for Horror seeks to `account' for what happened in Rwanda, but it does it in a way that is never simplistic. It confronts head-on the casual enquirer who only wants to know `who are the victims and who are the perpetrators?' Instead it deconstructs such facile questions in a way that is both disturbing and fascinating. In this respect it reminded me very much of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. I bought this book because I wanted to know more about what happened in Rwanda. This book explains it in a way that works on many different levels. It is an illuminating study of one of the darkest chapters in recent human history. |
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Accounting For Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda by Nigel Eltringham (Paperback - January 20, 2004)
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