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Rwanda’s 30-year Assault on Congo
Thirty years ago, all parameters were in place for regime change in Congo: US military assistance to Paul Kagame’s troops in Rwanda, Western political cover for an invasion, US satellite data needed for Rwanda’s military sweep, and secure financing from multinational companies poised to profit from the most resource-rich nation in Africa.
Crucial to this overthrow were the concerted international efforts to cover up or at least minimize the body count associated with the invasion, which marked the beginning of a long and ugly conflict that has stripped Congo of its sovereignty, its safety and its resources.
Rwanda’s 30-year assault on Congo traces the roots of Kagame’s campaign and the impunity he’s been granted from the United States and its allies, including Canada. It explores the early US support to Kagame’s rebels from the 1980s to their seizure of power in Rwanda in 1994, via Uganda, Washington’s geopolitical lynchpin on the African continent.
The author examines the tactics Rwanda has used to infiltrate and subjugate Congo in a military campaign that has left millions of Congolese dead, created wealth for Rwandan oligarchs and enriched a handful of multinationals and international elites.
About InPraise of Blood The Crimes of the Rwandan Patrriotic Front
Rever chronicles the largely unreported and cynically discounted view of the Rwandan genocide In making her case she risks everything including her life to expose the crimes of Rwandas current brutal government Revers harrowing narrative isnt just a portrait of a tragic time it also stands as an uncompromising prosecution of that period and its ongoing consequences In Praise of Blood is an undeniably important story told by a remarkably brave writer 2018 Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury citation
This is an unflinching account of one of the most ruthlessly executed and cynically exploited human catastrophes of the twentieth century If you thought you understood the genesis of the Rwandan genocide think again If you are confused by the origins of the ongoing carnage in the Congo and Zaire mysterious murders in Uganda and South Africa start reading nowLinden MacIntyre awardwinning broadcast journalist
In Praise of Bloodexplores how Washington helped obscure the full story of the genocide that devastated Rwanda during the 1990s and cover up the crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front RPF which has ruled the country ever sinceIn Praise of Bloodis the most accessible and uptodate of these studies Kagames regime and its defenders have dismissed them all as propaganda Revers account will prove difficult to challengeHelen EpsteinThe New York Review of Books
Revers book is expertly crafted Riveting though often gruesome names names As journalism and creative writingIn Praise of Bloodis excellent Laurie GarrettThe LancetExplosive Her account suggests that the Rwandan states narrative of the genocide is not just onesided and simplistic but fundamentally falseKate CroninFurmanThe Los Angeles Review of BooksI found Judi Revers In Praise of Blood a reexamination of the Rwandan genocide harrowing and illuminatingEsi Edugyan twotime Scotiabank Giller Prize winnerThere are no awards found for this book.
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100 Pages
7.00in * 4.50in *
180.00gr
Published:
April 01, 2026
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ISBN:
9781771864114
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