[Debate] George Monbiot – See No Evil

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Isn't George Monbiot a "genocide denialist" if we go by his rhetoric
since he doesn't appear to consider the Hutus killed by the RPF to be
the victims of "genocide"?

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Ran Greenstein <rangreen at sn.apc.org> wrote:
> Monbiot's claim is that some leftists deny that a genocide of Tutsi
> residents by Hutu militias took place in Rwanda in 1994. I am glad you
> are not among these denialists. That many Hutu were killed by the RPF
> is undeniable, but many of them were militia fighters and, in any
> event, their numbers were much lower than those killed in 1994. This
> imbalance does not make Kagame a saint
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi
> <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No one is denying that the then pro-government forces killed hundreds
>> of thousands of people, mainly Tutsis.  What's being denied by the
>> defenders of Paul Kagame's dictatorship is that the RPF has killed
>> hundreds of thousands, too, mainly Hutus, inside _and_ outside Rwanda
>> -- in particular in Congo.  One way of looking at it, if you insist on
>> the definition of "genocide" used by the 1948 genocide convention, is
>> that there are two "genocides" -- one remembered, the other denied and
>> even justified.
>
> --
> Ran Greenstein
> Johannesburg, South Africa
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