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The Difficulties of Genocide
08 April 2004
The press is marking the 10th “anniversary” of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda with a well-intentioned collage of vicarious suffering, voyeuristic horror, and awkward piety. In an original feature, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet examines the coverage of Rwanda, ten years on, and the ambiguous place the atrocity occupies in the Western mind: The Difficulties of Genocide.

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