Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
This paper intends to study the stories of witnesses of the genocide of the Tutsi people in Rwanda from the angle of both History and Justice. It analyses how the actual event is brought back by the victims’s stories and shows the tormentors that the lives they have undone have been redone in defiance of the effort to wipe out all traces, the basic idea of genocide. Furthermore, the witnesses report seems to be a judiciary scene where, trying to understand what has happened, the victims put themselves in the witness box of their conscience in order to find their fault, their guilt, whereas the tormentors search for their penalty and absolution.
Recommended Citation
Gbanou, Sélom
(2007)
"La pensée du témoignage : de la scène du génocide
à la scène judiciaire,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 69:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol69/iss1/5
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