RWANDA AND GENOCIDE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - Softcover

Destexhe, Alain

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9780745310411: RWANDA AND GENOCIDE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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ISBN 10: 0745310419 ISBN 13: 9780745310411

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1995

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'An angry and eloquent book.' Financial Times

'Alain Destexhe, a former Secretary General of the relief agency M�decins sans Fronti�res and now a senator in the Belgium Parliament, who has writted Rwanda in Genocide in the Twentieth Century, a treatise to counter the catch-all of media coverage in which 'all catastrophes are treated alike and reduced to their lowest common denominator - compassion on the part of the onlooker.' Observer

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'Alain Destexhe, a former Secretary General of the relief agency M�decins sans Fronti�res and now a senator in the Belgium Parliament, who has writted Rwanda in Genocide in the Twentieth Century, a treatise to counter the catch-all of media coverage in which 'all catastrophes are treated alike and reduced to their lowest common denominator - compassion on the part of the onlooker.' Observer

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"In this important primer, Destexhe, secretary-general of the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, assails world complacency about the tragedy in Rwanda."

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