{"id":77567,"date":"2014-04-18T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=77567"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:58:40","slug":"three-perspectives-on-the-rwanda-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/18\/three-perspectives-on-the-rwanda-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years after it began, three perspectives on the genocide in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/Murambi-5-2009-dauge-roth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77447\" alt=\"Bates students visit the Murabi Genocide Memorial site in 2009 as part of Alex Dauge-Roth's Short Term course &quot;Learning with Orphans of the Rwandan Genocide.&quot; More than 50,000 people were massacred at the site.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/Murambi-5-2009-dauge-roth-300x209.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/Murambi-5-2009-dauge-roth-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/Murambi-5-2009-dauge-roth-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/Murambi-5-2009-dauge-roth.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bates students visit the Murambi Genocide Memorial site in 2009 as part of Alex Dauge-Roth&#8217;s Short Term course &#8220;Learning with Orphans of the Rwandan Genocide.&#8221; More than 50,000 people were massacred at the site.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Twenty years ago, the genocide in Rwanda began; 100 days later, &#8220;the country was a field of ruins and chaos: No institutions had been spared,&#8221; says Alexandre Dauge-Roth, professor of French and Francophone studies.<\/p>\n<p>Three stories offer perspectives on the genocide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dauge-Roth, an expert in the literary, cinematic and testimonial representations of the genocide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/18\/six-questions-with-professor-alexandre-dauge-roth-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-in-rwanda\/\">answers six questions about the events of 1994<\/a> and what is at stake for Rwanda moving forward.<\/li>\n<li>Aliza Luft \u201906, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/18\/aliza-luft-06-examines-risky-defections-during-rwandas-genocide\/\">examines the question of &#8220;risky defections&#8221;<\/a> during Rwanda\u2019s genocide during the otherwise brutal Rwandan genocide in 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Bates seniors Devin Tatro and Simone Schriger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/15\/project-for-peace-award-goes-to-tatro-schriger-for-humanitarian-work-in-rwanda\/\">explain their project in Rwanda this summer<\/a> to serve children of incarcerated Rwandans, including those jailed for crimes during the genocide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspectives look at the past, present and future of Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":60998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7656],"class_list":["post-77567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enewsletter","tag-rwandan-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77567"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77586,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77567\/revisions\/77586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}