Wendy Whitworth: Editor
Personal Accounts of Genocide Survivors: Posted 03 July 2009
Book Review - Memorial of wholesale slaughter, murder, rape, torture, obscenities and more.
04 July 2009
15th Anniversary of Fall of Kigali and the nominal end of Bagosoro's monstrous 100-day assault on innocent humanity,
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Lest we forget, a decade and a half later literally thousands of survivors still live with scars of body and mind. This book briefly chronicles the genocide beyond all genocide. So thoroughly planned and executed was it that only a fraction survived. This book recounts the tales of 28 survivors some 15 years after the fact.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, July 03, 2009.
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Fourteen years, nearly a generation, have passed. From America, we can only know what we read or hear how things are going from the media and others. Necessarily, such accounts are limited at best, biased at worst. So when the opportunity arrived we decided to visit and find out for ourselves. We interviewed dozens of individuals: subsistence farmers, diplomats, business people, physicians, students, cab drivers, public servants, hospital administrators, office clerks, hotel keepers, research scientists, corrections officers and housewives. Not all were employed. A common consensus emerged.
"Things are better, we are healing."
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, December 28, 2008.
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Its Roots and Implications
Dixon K Kamukama
Extended Book Review
This little book fills out the pre-genocide history of Rwanda nicely.
Other books reviewed on this site neglected or glossed over this important
period. It is important for it traces the true origins of the Hutu / Tutsi
divide. Further, it is important because it shows that Rwandan cultural
developments paralleled the histories of other feudal states that threw
off feudalism by one means or another, but typically by violence. Rwanda was no exception. The Germans, then the Belgians, complicated that process.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, December 19, 2008.
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Dispatch from Ground Zero
Harry Rosenberg
Fourteen years, nearly a generation, have passed since those awful days in 1994. From America, we can only know what we read or hear from others about how things are going. When an opportunity arose to spend some time in Rwanda, we grabbed the chance. Were our perceptions right? If not, where did we go wrong, and, more-importantly, why? It turned out that we were missing a great deal of detail--not surprising--except some of it matters.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Wednesday, December 10, 2008.
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We have not determined independently that every detail below is factual. But our research confirms many times over the general features of the genocide, two centuries long, against Native Americans.
Our reasons for posting this page are three-fold:
Genocide could happen here; it already has.
Our collective mental health depends on our ability to recognize myth, to separate fact from fancy.
(Sanitizing history may seem patriotic,
but in fact it is a collective form of denial.)
To recognize the culture of Squanto and his tribe in helping the Pilgrams survive at the same time we mourn the two centuries of their systematic massacres (genocide) thereafter.
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Posted by RoadToPeace on Saturday, November 18, 2006.
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The United Nations and Rwanda
Book review with commentary
Michael Barnett - Professor of Political Science, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison.
All who care about the future of humanity should read this book. We give this book four stars on content, three on style -- it could be presented in a more dramatic fashion to attract more readers, and more readers is what this book deserves. It also misses the boat in terms of what can be done about it. Admiring the man who stands his ground and his principles is simply not enough. Dallaire could not do it alone, and neither can anyone else. A movement may well be required.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Friday, October 06, 2006.
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The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Beatrice Umutesi
Book Review with commentary
Umutesi is a sociologist who was working in rural development when the genocide broke out. As a well-educated moderate, and Hutu, pgs 13-16, she related easily to both groups. Nevertheless, she was chased by both sides during the civil war after president Habyarimana was assassinated. Her story is a searing account of the hardships both groups of refugees underwent. Her first-hand account adds dimension and depth to our knowledge of both the goodness and awfulness of humankind at its best and worst.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Tuesday, August 29, 2006.
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First came the Germans: a result of the Berlin Conference of 1885 at which European imperial powers carved up Africa among themselves. Until 4 May 1894, Rwanda had been a mountain kingdom of many hills and lush valleys. It was a Garden of Eden to many.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 23, 2006.
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Gerard Prunier
Book Review
Prunier does a marvelous job of bringing the actors in the genocide to life. Their fears and base aspirations appear in full relief. At root, the most common factor in all the violence from murder, through slaughter to genocide, had to do with land, the primary resource in this tiny over-populated world. Population pressure built to the bursting point.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Thursday, July 20, 2006.
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"America and the Age of Genocide"
Samantha Power
Book Review with commentary
A most remarkable book; Power draws a bead on the mindsets of those
"watching" as genocidaires hacked people to death; 8000 per day for 100 days in Rwanda, for one example. She gives others.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Tuesday, June 13, 2006.
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Romeo Dallaire
The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Book Review With Commentary
From assassination, through slaughter upon slaughter of both Hutus and Tutsis to a ghastly genocide, General Dallaire led the UN peacekeepers from crisis to crisis in attempting to save humanity from itself. From neither the UN nor the great powers did he receive anything like adequate support -- until the tide had turned.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Saturday, June 10, 2006.
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Rwandan Genocide
Mahmood Mamdani
Book Review with commentary
The Rwandan genocide has become a Metaphor for post-colonial political violence. It fits certain historic molds but with unique features. Genocide in our book is the extreme expression of the
Authoritarian Personality.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Saturday, February 11, 2006.
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"The grave is only half full. Who will help fill it?"
RADIO MILLE COLLINS, Rwanda, April 1994
The "best of humanity" turned away from its grossest expression. If the Rwanda experience cannot motivate a grass-roots response toward something better, what can? Could this be what happened to the Neanderthals? Their brutish appearance may have evolved with personalities too peaceful to counter an aggressive Neandercide whenever resources became an issue.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Tuesday, August 09, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
Chapter II:
By 1920-1921 certain circles belonging to the present outlived bourgeois class accused our movement again and again of taking up a negative attitude towards the modern State.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
Chapter III:
The institution that is now erroneously called the State generally classifies people only into two groups: citizens and aliens. Citizens are all those who possess full civic rights, either by reason of their birth or by an act of naturalization.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
If the principal duty of the National Socialist People's State be to educate and promote the existence of those who are the material out of which the State is formed, it will not be sufficient to promote those racial elements as such, educate them and finally train them for practical life, but the State must also adapt its own organization to meet the demands of this task.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
The People's State, which I have tried to sketch in general outline, will not become a reality in virtue of the simple fact that we know the indispensable conditions of its existence. It does not suffice to know what aspect such a State would present.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
The echoes of our first great meeting, in the banquet hall of the Hofbruhaus on February 24th, 1920, had not yet died away when we began preparations for our next meeting.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
In 1919-20 and also in 1921 I attended some of the bourgeois meetings. Invariably I had the same feeling towards these as towards the compulsory dose of castor oil in my boyhood days. It just had to be taken because it was good for one: but it certainly tasted unpleasant.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
In the preceding chapter I mentioned the existence of a co-operative union between the German patriotic associations. Here I shall deal briefly with this question.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
The strength of the old state rested on three pillars: the monarchical form of government, the civil service, and the army. The Revolution of 1918 abolished the form of government, dissolved the army and abandoned the civil service to the corruption of party politics.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
In the winter of 1919, and still more in the spring and summer of 1920, the young Party felt bound to take up a definite stand on a question which already had become quite serious during the War.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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by Adolf Hitler
Volume Two: The National Socialist Movement
The year 1921 was specially important for me from many points of view.
When I entered the German Labor Party I at once took charge of the propaganda, believing this branch to be far the most important for the time being.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
Owing to the rapid growth of the movement, in 1922 we felt compelled to take a definite stand on a question which has not been fully solved even yet.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement
The erratic manner in which the foreign affairs of the Reich were conducted was due to a lack of sound guiding principles for the formation of practical and useful alliances. Not only was this state of affairs continued after the Revolution, but it became even worse.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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by Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
There are two reasons which induce me to submit to a special examination the relation of Germany to Russia: Here perhaps we are dealing with the most decisive concern of all German foreign affairs; and this question is also the touchstone for the political capacity of the young National Socialist movements to think clearly and to act correctly.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume Two - A Reckoning
THE ARMISTICE of November, 1918, ushered in a policy which in all human probability was bound to lead gradually to total submission.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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by Adolf Hitler
Volume Two
The National Socialist Movement
On February 24th, 1920, the first great mass meeting under the auspices of the new movement took place.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Revised 03 Apr 2010
Genocide most basically is internecine warfare within a culture and in that sense resembles warfare within and between species over resources and territory. It differs not at all from the competition in the jungles and savannas.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Hitler was more than just an Authoritarian Personality, AP. He was himself, a prototype of the most violent extreme, the sociopath without a conscience. Ironically, he defined the AP in his memoir, Mein Kampf, ascribing it to the Jews!
Posted by RoadToPeace on Monday, August 01, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
IF AT THE END of this volume I describe the first period in the development of our movement and briefly discuss a number of questions it raises, my aim is not to give a dissertation on the spiritual aims of the movement.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Update: 29 April 2007
Volume One - "A Reckoning"
Annotated but unabridged.
[FORWARD: By no means is the commentary on this page meant to be taken as simply an indictment of leaders in our age--neither Abu Grhaib nor Guantanamo were equipped with gas chambers. Rather, it is the long view that is important--along with understanding just how fragile the American style of democracy is, and how it might be corrupted. Hitler's more revealing statements are in red.]
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - "A Reckoning"
Annotated but unabridged.
Now, it goes without saying, he can really make use of his position for his own advancement.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - "A Reckoning"
Annotated but unabridged.
So it is absolutely wrong to infer any ideal sense of sacrifice in the Jews from the fact that they stand together in struggle, or, better expressed, in the plundering of their fellow men.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - "A Reckoning"
Annotated but unabridged.
It is then possible that such a people will a second time, or even more often in the course of its history, come into contact with the race of those who once brought it culture, and the memory of former encounters will not necessarily be present.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - "A Reckoning"
Annotated but unabridged.
Mein Kampf is in two volumes, the first was written when Hitler was in prison in Bavaria in 1923-1924.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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by Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
THERE are some truths which are so obvious that for this very reason they are not seen or at least not recognized by ordinary people.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
THE EXTENT of the fall of a body is always measured by the distance between its momentary position and the one it originally occupied.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
ONE DAY I received orders from my headquarters to find out what was behind an apparently political organization which was planning to hold a meeting within the next few days under the name of 'German Workers' Party'--with Gottfried Feder as one of the speakers.
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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Adolf Hitler
Volume One - A Reckoning
AT THE END of November, 1918, I returned to Munich. Again I went to the replacement battalion of my regiment, which was in the hands of 'soldiers' councils.'
Posted by RoadToPeace on Sunday, July 31, 2005.
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