Re-Imagining Rwanda

The conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world''s media diplomats and aid workers struggling to make sense of the bloodshed. This study shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda managed to impose a simple persuasive account of Central Africa''s crises upon international commentators and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. It is a sobering analysis of how simple persuasive but fatally misleading analysis of the situation led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis.