In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
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In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Judi Rever (Author), Justine Eyre (Narrator), Random House Canada (Publisher)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
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  • 2018 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
  • 2018 winner of The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.

Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers, and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviors who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region.

Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshaled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994 - the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. She proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women, and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land.

This audiobook is heartbreaking, chilling, and necessary.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 36 minutes
  2. Author
    Judi Rever
  3. Narrator
    Justine Eyre
  4. Audible release date
    November 20, 2018
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Canada
  7. ASIN
    B07KGH6GG2
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 9 hours and 36 minutes
Author Judi Rever
Narrator Justine Eyre
Audible.com Release Date November 20, 2018
Publisher Random House Canada
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07KGH6GG2
Best Sellers Rank #137,335 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#35 in Genocide & War Crimes
#56 in Human Rights (Audible Books & Originals)
#118 in African History (Audible Books & Originals)

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Foreign Policy Buff
5.0 out of 5 stars at great personal risk to herself
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018
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This is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism by a skilled and intrepid journalist, who, at great personal risk to herself, has meticulously pieced together how the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame, the now much-lauded president of Rwanda, perpetrated a genocide of its own. The RPF's massacres of Hutu civilians started even before the Hutu nationalist elements within and outside the Rwandan government began the mass slaughter of Tutsi in 1994, ultimately killing as many as 1 million of them.

The conventional story is that the Rwandan genocide was a one-way affair: the Hutu nationalists killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Tuts (as well as many moderate Hutu). That did happen, and Rever makes it clear that it did; in any event, that is by now well known, and undisputed. But what is not widely known is just how blood-soaked the hands of the RPF and Kagame are and how they have ruthlessly silenced (by, in numerous instances, killing) those who have first-hand knowledge of the RPF's crimes and shared it with international investigators, or were prepared to do so. The standard version of what occurred in Rwanda is that Kagame and the RPF heroically stopped a genocide that the rest of the world watched without lifting a finger. Yes, the outside world did fail to act, but Rever demolishes the conventional narrative that lionizes Kagame and the RPF as saviors. They killed as pitilessly as did the Hutu genocidaires--and in comparable numbers.

Rever also demonstrates that western governments have steadfastly protected Kagame, even though they had, almost from the outset, incontrovertible evidence of his ghastly crimes. Do read this riveting account by an exceptionally brave and smart journalist.
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T. Reid
5.0 out of 5 stars Brave and essential account of crimes the international community tries to cover up
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2020
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Judi Rever has done an enormous service to humanity with courageous and well researched account of the crimes of the Rwandan patriotic Front, the Tutsi supremacist movement that invaded from Uganda in 1990 and managed to take power in Rwanda in 1994 after a Genocide that it was instrumental in creating. If she ever comes out with a revised edition or a follow up, then I would like to see more on the crimes they committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

As a former UN human rights investigator in Rwanda and Political Affairs Officer and Team Leader responsible for repatriating foreign combatants from South Kivu in the DRC, I can personally attest to much of what she says.
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David Siegel
5.0 out of 5 stars An astonishing and important book
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2021
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Things are not what they seem. If you have been to Uganda, Rwanda, or Congo, you should read this. The situation continues to this day. Africa is being held back by strong men who murder indiscriminately, kill their rivals, and cover their tracks while giving speeches to the United Nations. Thank you for bravely writing this book. Everyone should read it.
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Kalombo C.
4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed in it's accounts but skirts around the crux of the story
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023
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She paints a detailed picture of a little known, but crucial piece of history of the Rwandan genocide and the subsequent Congo war that has been deliberately suppressed.
But while she breaks new ground in telling a critical story, she doesn't spell it out as plainly and as clearly as could be. The reader must deduce the conclusion for themselves
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prince k.
5.0 out of 5 stars What’s next?
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2020
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The truth is stubborn. Soon or later it will always come out.
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Iyason
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2018
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The whole Rwandan genocide story and a true version of General Kagame' s atrocities committed against Rwanda people.must read!
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Ken
4.0 out of 5 stars Rwanda was actually two genocides
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2019
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Eye opening. Presented from the viewpoint of an honest reporter as she discovered the evidence. The only weak aspect is inherent in the fact that many of the sources have to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.
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Jayke Luland
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in Australia on August 4, 2020
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Fantasic examination of a truely brutal regime. Judi Rever lifts the lid on the propagandized version of the Rwandan genocide and presents a horrifying, factual account of what really occured. A must read for anti imperialist.
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佐藤治彦
3.0 out of 5 stars ふつう
Reviewed in Japan on July 8, 2019
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90年代末から2000年代にかけてルワンダ、コンゴと発展、多発していく地域紛争において、RPFとその指導者ポール・カガメの関与した多数の虐殺や、コンゴの豊富な鉱物資源を目的に群がるアメリカの企業と紛争の関連性をほのめかした内容。
細かく調べてあるようなので信頼性には足るのかもしれないが、基本的に紛争関連の本は人権団体などが出典元になっている資料の二次転用が目立つのと、インタビューに答える人が偽名な上に本当に存在するかもわからない人たちなので、真に受けすぎず読むのに疲れる。そして問題を喚起するためか強い主張、しかも複雑な事柄を粘り強く説明していくような力強さではなく、問題を単純化してしまうような粗っぽい乱暴さが目立つのでそちらにも注意したい。例えば、カガメは悪だとか。

アフリカ紛争関連を先進国の人に伝える内容の本にはとても多いのだが、人がたくさん殺される、イコール虐殺、の論調を私はあまり好ましいとは思えない。その原因を特定の団体や特定の人物の意図によるものとして糾弾するのは読物としては分かりやすいが、では紛争というある種の社会現象を特定の原因なり要素なりに還元したところで何が知れるというのだろう？　独裁者が悪い、虐殺の責任者は誰それだ、という安易な原因の単純化はただのつるし上げでしかない気さえする。もっと曖昧さを許容した上で、紛争の理解と背景と原因や結果の関連性を提示し問題を提起する、というようなジャーナリストの本があってもいい気がするのだが、どうやらこの本ではなかった、ということだろう。

ただ、私は英語があまり得意ではないので内容を誤解しているのかもしれないが。
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Faustin
5.0 out of 5 stars A mustread book
Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2018
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Super! Ce livre est plus qu'extraordinaire, je ne sais comment le qualifier. C'est une révélation d'une machine à tuer du Front Patriotique Rwandais . Alors que le monde entier nous a fait croire l'angélisme de Paul Kagame , nous rwandais savions qu'il y avait quelque chose de complètement faux et de complètement machiavélique. Judi Rever décrit très bien ce qui a été très bien caché et nous révèle aussi toute la misère du monde qu'elle a eu à cause de ce livre. Elle mérite d'être lue . C,est un livre qui devrait être enseigné dans les collèges et les universités.
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The g Factor
5.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful Revelations on the Rwandan Genocides
Reviewed in Australia on August 30, 2018
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A thoroughly researched look at the atrocities committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the 1990s. Although generally depicted as liberators from the Hutu genocidaires the RPF began massacres and ethnic cleansing even before the genocide of 1994 - and seems to have been complicit in engineering the genocide. A readable, if frightening story of subterfuge, manipulation terror and double-dealing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant investigations by the writer
Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2019
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Fantastic job by the author! We have been blinded for more than two decades by the international medias highly financed by those who had been behind the Rwandan genocide. They unfortunately continue fuelling massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Judy Rever is taking the veil off the truth in this masterwork.
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