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Rwanda’s genocide: why remembering needs to be free of politics – lessons from survivors

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par Samantha Lakin, Lecturer, Clark University

Memory and politics are inherently intertwined and can never be fully separated in post-atrocity and post-genocidal contexts. They are also dynamic and ever-changing. The interplay between memory and politics is, therefore, prone to manipulation, exaggeration or misuse by clever actors to meet a range of political ends.

This applies too to Rwanda’s commemoration period (Kwibuka). It runs from April to July each year,…

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