{"id":40624,"date":"2018-11-17T08:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40624"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:25:46","slug":"et-tu-rt-amplifying-western-disinformation-on-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40624","title":{"rendered":"Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The great lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and helped justify U.S. military interventions in Libya and Syria, argues Ann Garrison.<\/span><\/p>\n

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During a recent campaign event, Florida Senator Bill Nelson<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cThat story of Rwanda is very instructive to us because when a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won\u2019t have anything to do with each other, and that jealousy turns into hate\u2014we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what\u2019s happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That got a lot of headlines even though U.S. ethnicity is binary only if seen as white vs. everybody else. Whatever Sen. Nelson meant, those who do see it that way have certainly gained prominence since Trump took the White House.<\/p>\n

That was a newly minted reference to the Rwandan genocide in U.S. discourse, however. Rwanda is most often remembered in urgent calls for \u201chumanitarian intervention,\u201d a.k.a. war, to stop another genocide. We\u2019re told that the U.S. failed to stop Rwanda\u2019s 1994 genocide, so we\u2019re now obliged to \u201cintervene\u201d anytime and anywhere another genocide is underway. That\u2019s why, we\u2019re falsely<\/a> told, the U.S. and its NATO allies had to bomb Libya into ongoing chaos in 2011. That\u2019s why Lockheed Martin had to step up production of cruise missiles to drop on Syria. That\u2019s why Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, both 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, became initial co-sponsors of an Orwellian bill to \u201cenhance\u201d our government\u2019s ability to \u201cprevent genocide and mass atrocities\u201d with military force: Senate Bill 1158, the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda. (Chatham House \/ CC BY 2.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda The great lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and helped justify U.S. military interventions in Libya and Syria, argues Ann Garrison. During a recent campaign event, Florida Senator Bill Nelson\u00a0said, \u201cThat story of Rwanda is very instructive to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[21961,10961,6963,3717,484,2864,4457,4194,553,655,23030,776,827],"class_list":["post-40624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-ann-garrison","tag-congo","tag-consortium-news","tag-disinformation","tag-libya","tag-lies","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-military-intervention","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-rwanda","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40625,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40624\/revisions\/40625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}