Genocide In Rwanda, and US action

[James Heartfield]

In message <a05001905b61b94615cbf@[10.0.1.25]>, Brad DeLong
<delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes
>Isn't "started the cycle of violence that led to the slaughter" an 
>example of what we in other contexts call "blaming the victim"?

No. It would not be right to say that Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal were
blaming the victims of the slaughter in Rwanda when they wrote that the
RPF started the cycle of violence. Why? Because the RPF were not the
victims of the slaughter, they were the victors of the war. The victims
were Tutsis living in Rwanda, 800 000 of them. As well as them, there
were other victims, such as the 8000 refugees slaughtered
indiscriminately at Kibeho camp. They were killed by the RPF.
-- 
James Heartfield