[This is an absolutely stunning text for our times. It's an interview with a survivor (Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana) of the Rwandan horrors of 1990-1994, conducted by an American university student (David Barouski)--and just when I thought America didn't have a hampster's chance in a microwave of getting this one right (--except for Keith Snow and, maybe, Wayne Madsen).

It reads like a chataqua I wish I'd written (and, hey, I still might) about one of the most brazenly flaunted historical lies, since . . . god, there are so many! Let's just call the Rwandan Genocide of 100 days one of the biggest African Big Lies of the last 2000 years.

Barouski, the young man who put this extraordinary piece together (it originally appeared on ZNet), is a 27 year old poli/sci major at the U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Go . . . what? Beercats!?). David has been working on the Rwandan dossier just a couple days longer than I have, and he has already gotten his head around more information--good, cogent, hard information--than I could master if I live to be a hundred--yo, wait a minute! That's not all that much longer! But, anyway, David's work is very important. (Word up on the ICTR mainline was that he was really a Rwandan writing under a nom de guerre--they don't pass out props like that on the quad at UW, I bet).   more »