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L'archive retrouvée. Enquêter sur le rôle de la France au Rwanda

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Number
30259
Author
Robinet, François
Date
Avril 2022
Ymd
20220401
Title
L'archive retrouvée. Enquêter sur le rôle de la France au Rwanda
Size
528197 bytes
Pages nb.
17
Source
Type
Article de revue
Language
FR
Abstract
Since 1994, journalists, activists and researchers have been collecting documentary traces of the Tutsi genocide. This article attempts to write the history of this quest for "archives" to document the role played by France in Rwanda. In a French context where state public archives have long remained inaccessible, the text questions the peculiarities of the working conditions of historians specializing in genocide faced with competing expertise, a large profusion of documents as well as the claim of the political authorities to frame the methods of writing this particularly sensitive history.