La commémoration du génocide au Rwanda. Violence symbolique, mémorisation forcée et histoire officielle

Perpetrated only ten years ago, the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda resulted in numerous commemoration ceremonies that took place during the exhumation services, when thousands of bodies – mostly non-identified –, were officially re-buried. What was the role of these ceremonies in the Great Lakes�...

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Glavni avtor: Vidal, Claudine
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Français
Izdano: 2004
Online dostop:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Izvleček:Perpetrated only ten years ago, the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda resulted in numerous commemoration ceremonies that took place during the exhumation services, when thousands of bodies – mostly non-identified –, were officially re-buried. What was the role of these ceremonies in the Great Lakes' societies, where usually burial is not part of social tradition and even less so is public exposal of a dead body? Did these ceremonies represent a “necessary process of mourning”, did they open the way to reconciliation, or, on the contrary, did they re-open already existing tensions?