caa a22 4500 38804411X CHVBK 20180307125031.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/524678 doi S0002020600034120 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/524678 Lemarchand René Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? [Elektronische Daten] [René Lemarchand] There can be no reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi without justice, and no justice without truth. This proposition holds true for all three states of former Belgian Africa. In Rwanda and Burundi, in particular, getting at the truth will remain problematic as long as the perpetrators of genocide readily cast themselves in the role of victims, and the victims, in turn, are seen as perpetrators by their enemies. Basic disagreements between Hutu and Tutsi about who committed genocide and why are traceable in part to the uncritical use of the term genocide to describe just about any type of ethnic violence, in part to the selective sifting of the evidence with a view to exonerating one group and condemning the other. Although Hutu and Tutsi are both guilty of genocide, the tendency to substitute collective guilt for individual culpability in the planning and execution of the killings can only result in distortion of the facts. There will be no peace in the Great Lakes region unless one takes seriously the task of shedding light on the circumstances, the scale and the consequences of the genocide of Hutu by Tutsi in Burundi (1972), of Tutsi and Hutu by Hutu in Rwanda (1994), and of Hutu by Tutsi in Congo (1996-1997). Copyright © African Studies Association 1998 African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/1(1998-04), 3-16 0002-0206 41:1<3 1998 41 ASR https://doi.org/10.2307/524678 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/524678 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lemarchand René NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/1(1998-04), 3-16 0002-0206 41:1<3 1998 41 ASR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 234145765 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge