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The Rwandese Crisis: History of a Genocide

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From: The International Migration Review
Date: 19961001
Author:Adelman, Howard

The Rwandese Crisis History ofa Genocide By Gerard Prunier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. 389. $29.95 (c).

HOWARD ADELMAN

York University, Toronto

Aristotle was wrong when he wrote, "poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history" (1s9:1451.5) History is more important. Further, when we try to mix poetry and history, it is very dangerous both in actual history and in interpreting that history Thus, even though Gerard Prunier has written an excellent book on the internal Rwandese factors and French role in the genocide, four misleading claims require ...

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