In 1994, An Interim Government In Rwanda Orchestrated One Of The World's Worst Mass Crimes: A Hundred-day Extermination Campaign That Took Half A Million Lives. At The Time, Rwanda's Genocide Went Largely Unnoticed By The Outside World. Today There Is Growing Interest In Rwanda, As Many Discover The Horror That Took Place And Seek To Understand How And Why Violence Of This Character And Magnitude Could Have Happened In Our Time. Intimate Enemy Is A Rare Entree Into The Logic, Language, And Imagery Of Rwanda's Violence. The Book Presents Perpetrator Testimony And Photographs Of Both Perpetrators And Survivors. The Images And Words Are Raw And Unanalyzed; The Reader Is Left To Make Sense Of The Killers And Their Would-be Victims. Intimate Enemy Challenges Our Assumptions About The Genocide And Those Who Perpetrated It. The Book Also Provokes Us To Consider How To Represent And Imagine Violence On The Scale Of Rwanda's.--jacket. Introduction -- Photographer's Notes -- Interviews -- Photographs -- Map -- Glossary. Photographs By Robert Lyons ; Introduction And Interviews By Scott Straus. Includes Bibliographical References.

Intimate enemy: images and voices of the Rwandan geonocide

Lyons, Robert; Straus, Scott, 1970-

Zone Books,u.s., New York, Ny

United States, United States of America

New York, Cambridge, Mass, 2006

Volume 0, 2006

PS, 2006

obscured text front cover
page 190-191 text run into the gutter

In 1994, an interim government in Rwanda orchestrated one of the worlds worst mass a hundred-day extermination campaign that took half a million lives. At the time, Rwandas genocide went largely unnoticed by the outside world. Today there is growing interest in Rwanda, as many discover the horror that took place and seek to understand how and why violence of this character and magnitude could have happened in our time.
Intimate Enemy is a rare entre into the logic, language, and imagery of Rwandas violence. The book presents perpetrator testimony and photographs of both perpetrators and survivors. The images and words are raw and unanalyzed, leaving the reader to make sense of the killers and their would-be victims.
Intimate Enemy challenges our assumptions about the genocide and those who perpetrated it. The book also prods us to consider how to represent and imagine violence on the scale of Rwandas.

Provides a collection of interviews and photographs of perpetrators and victims of the Rwandan genocide.

185 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references

2023-06-28