Longman Interviewed on 25th Anniversary of Rwandan Genocide
Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed by several media outlets on the genocide in Rwanda and the 25th anniversary of the violence.
Longman was interviewed for an April 7, 2019 article by RFI entitled “Rwanda: “The Genocidal State Said to Itself” Nobody Sill Stop Us.“”
For you today, do the commemorations symbolize or bring a form of truth about genocide such as the one you studied ?
What makes me sad is that the commemoration is not controlled by the survivors.So Rwanda today is led by people who were not in Rwanda during the genocide.These were people who were either in the army, the RPF, or in foreign countries-Uganda, Congo, Burundi.And because they were not there during the genocide, they do not understand exactly.
Longman was also interviewed for an April 8, 2019 segment on WBEZ Worldview entitled “25 Years After The Rwandan Genocide, How Is The Country Healing?”
Longman’s current research focuses on state -society relations in Africa, looking particularly at human rights, transitional justice, democratization, civil society, the politics of race and ethnicity, religion and politics, and women and politics.