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Myth and Reality After the Rwanda Genocide

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Open Society Foundations

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Partner:: Open Society Foundations
Location:: OSF at 400 West 59th Street
New York, NY
Event Date:: 09.19.11
Speakers:: Howard French,; Tim Gallimore,; Rona Peligal,; Theogene Rudasingwa,; Stephen W. Smith
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Summary: Rwandan president Paul Kagame has emerged as perhaps the most enigmatic and controversial figure in Africa. Is he the principled leader of "one of the safest and most orderly countries in Africa" (as one journalist put it), the man who calmly rebuilt Rwanda following one of the worst episodes of mass killing in the modern era? Or is he the primary architect of a brutal dictatorship, himself implicated in scores of serious human rights abuses, including crimes against humanity and genocide? Please join us for "Revising Paul Kagame: Myth and Reality After the Genocide in Rwanda." Our distinguished panelists will examine the image of Kagame that has been created in the media—and in the popular imagination—and how that image contrasts with reality. They'll also address such vexing questions as: How does one depict a legacy as complex and contradictory as Kagame's? How does a society recover from genocide, and how do we assess the benefits and drawbacks of the suppression of discussion of ethnic identity? And Is it ever permissible to take liberties with the factual record in the service of a just cause?

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Howard French

Veteran New York Times correspondent Howard French will write an in-depth, journalistic account of the dramatic increase in Chinese migration to Africa in the past decade. His book will explore the actual and potential impact of migration in three key economic sectors: agriculture, industry, and commerce. By telling the stories of the workers themselvesâ€”and the African communities where they now resideâ€”he expects to identify ways for African civil society to maximize the benefits of Chinese migration, mitigate the pitfalls, and safeguard the rights of Africans and Chinese alike. French served as the Times bureau chief for West Africa, Japan and the Koreas, Central America and the Caribbean, and China from 1990 until 2008. He is currently an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, published in 2004, he is also an accomplished documentary photographer. Frenchâ€™s project should provide valuable insights to Open Society Institute programs on migration, economic development, minority rights, and governance, as well as to Africa regional foundations and our developing work on China.

Tim Gallimore

Tim Gallimore is the former Spokesman for the ICTR Prosecutor.

Rona Peligal

Rona Peligal is the deputy director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, a position she has held since May 2009. Peligal helps manage Human Rights Watch's research on Africa, ensuring the quality and integrity of its investigations and strategizing on advocacy activities to promote human rights improvements in Africa.

Theogene Rudasingwa

Theogene Rudasingwa served as secretary general of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and Rwandan Ambassador to the United States

Stephen W. Smith

Stephen W. Smith was Africa editor of LibÃ©ration and Le Monde. He now teaches African studies and cultural anthropology at Duke University.

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01 hr 37 min 20 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 59 sec

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02.: Kagame's Is a Transformative, Authoritarian Regime

05 min 10 sec

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03.: Ethnic Component to Rwandan State Power

06 min 35 sec

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04.: The Origins of the RPF

04 min 19 sec

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05.: Correlation of Ethnicity and Power

03 min 01 sec

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06.: Not Discussing Ethnicity Makes Ethnic Problems Worse

04 min 42 sec

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07.: Very Personalized Rule

02 min 38 sec

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08.: Development Gains and Credit to Kagame

05 min 44 sec

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09.: Rwandan Society Looks Good from the Outside

08 min 23 sec

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10.: RPF Shift to Dictatorship

03 min 59 sec

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11.: Kagame Can't Be Blamed for Everything

06 min 14 sec

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12.: Response from Tim Gallimore

11 min 30 sec

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13.: Q & A

06 min 44 sec

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14.: Conflicting Views of Kagame / What About Congo?

13 min 32 sec

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15.: Kagame Rule Past 2017 / Inevitability of Implosion in Rwanda

09 min 50 sec

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Is Rwandan President Kagame on a Path to Another Crisis?

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Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States Theogene Rudasingwa observes that the ruling party of President Kagame, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, is exhibiting behaviors characteristic of previous regimes that led to the genocide 17 years ago. "You can see the signals, the stress signals, that existed before 1994, you can see them in Rwanda today."
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

Kagame, Paul: (born October 1957, Rwanda) President of Rwanda from 2000. An ethnic Tutsi, Kagame grew up in exile in Uganda, where in 1986 he helped overthrow Milton Obote in favour of Yoweri Museveni. In 1990 he helped direct an unsuccessful coup in Rwanda, and following the 1994 genocide that left almost one million Rwandans dead (most of them Tutsi), he assumed control of the joint Tutsi-Hutu opposition forces that soon controlled all of Rwanda. In July 1994 he was named vice president and minister of defense under Hutu president Pasteur Bizimungu. After Bizimungu resigned in 2000, Kagame was named president. In 1997 he was instrumental in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in neighbouring Zaire (Congo) and the installation of Laurent Kabila as president.; Kagame, Paul on britannica.com