APRIL-MAY2008
tHE ASYLUM OF EXTREME EXCLUSION: HOW
RWANDA MANUFACTURES AND EXPORTS GENOCIDE
BY KEITH
HARMON SNOW
Saturday, April 12, 2008
“Every April, Rwandans remember the 1994
genocide during a week of national mourning,” wrote
Dutch journalist Thijs Bouwknegt on April 4, 2008 in an
article which explores ‘genocide negationism’.
“This year’s official motto is ‘Let us
commemorate genocide while fighting against genocide
ideology; render assistance to survivors while working
for development’. The crimes of the ruling Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF), however, will be officially
forgotten.”[184]
[Mr. Snow has, once again, given us the produce of his
diligent, even Holmesian, investigative skills, his
passionate commitment to searching out the truth of
African history and transmitting it to the widest
possible public. With an almost obsessive zeal for
getting at the real facts, those hen's teeth so
effectively lost in the miasma of sentimental lies,
damned lies and statistics, that go to make up the
consensus story-line on the 'dark continent', as well as
the motives that propel this stuporous gaz of
disinformation into the gaping maws of a desperately and
delusionally conformist public, Snow is almost unique in
the Anglophone canon of African reportage.
Because of France’s mixed-up imperialist role (sort
of, ‘to protect and serve—oneself!) in the Pré
Carré (its Francophone domain in Africa), there is a
significant body of very good work in French by a list of
writers too long to mention here. But I can think of few
other English-language writers with Snow’s energies
and dedication: Besides the important work of the
Wisconsin badger, David Barouski, our own minister of
defense, Me.Chris Black, another Canadian comrade, Robin
Philpot, and, only occasionally outside his corpulent
tome, ‘Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa,
1993-1999’, Wayne Madsen,—and, lest I forget
(again!), let me also mention the valiant efforts of Phil
Taylor and his The Taylor Report, and the head of the
Arusha Defense Lawyers Association, Prof. Peter Erlinder,
who, incidentally, just pulled my coat to a site where
the mass of documents generated by the defense teams in
the Rwandan trials (esp, Military I & II), docs that
the ICTR and their imperialist minders are trying
desperately to suppress, can be found
(www.rwandadocumentsproject.net. )—all cited in
Snow’s article and throughout this blog; most of the
writing in English on Africa, in general, and Central
Africa (i.e., Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo {Zaire}), in
particular, has been done in pursuit of illicit advantage
in the
military/industrial/pharmaceutical/academic-careerist
rodents marathon. And this Human Righteous chasing by the
unspeakable after the unsupportable, now, with this vast
accumulation of evidence putting the lie to yet another
bourgeois historico-scientific placebo (e.g., 'it's all
about the virus'; 'it's all about the Islamofascists';
'it's all about the ethnic/tribal hate speech’;
etc.), has gone from being a mere war of the geeks v the
freaks on the Nightmare Alley of the popular waste-media,
to a kind of mass ass-kicking contest among a group of
one-legged tap-dancers more accustomed to kissing ass.
But in this article, Snow approaches, in English, the
sort of work Pierre Péan and Chas Onana have been doing
for a long time now in French. So, kick back, pour
yourself a double cup of that new Burmese cat-dung coffee
(a hundski-a-pop in London, so sip that shit!), and dig
this extraordinary exposé of the foul and mendacious
British (and US/Canadian) genocide hustle. Because now
that most of the survivors of the Jewish Holocaust of the
30s and 40s have passed on—after being thoroughly
fleeced by their stalwart financial advisers in the
Holocaust Industry—the reparations business is
looking for new marks to fill out the lower levels of its
various pyramid schemes. And these wasters have sown
plenty of treachery, violence, death and destruction in
Africa for many years, going from one nation-o-cide to
the next. So now, Mr. Snow’ll show you just how the
old-school imperialists are reaping their coffee
beans-of-wrath.
Merci mille fois, Keith. – mick collins]