Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the discourses of denial about the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. First, it focuses on what we can call a “French denial,” represented by the writings of the journalists Pierre Péan and Stephen Smith and of the social scientists Claudine Vidal, André Guichaoua, and Filip Reyntjens, a Belgian scholar, and by the inquiry of the anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguière. Secondly, this article mentions the African intellectuals who have accepted those lines openly or tacitly. If they had studied precisely the events that occurred in Rwanda, they could have countered western denial about the genocide against the Tutsi. Taking the example of an association in Senegal, the author shows that the time for acceptance based on precise study has not yet come.
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