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Alexandre Kimenyi's Website (5545 words) |
 | This minimization of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda can be seen in the deliberate choice and use, misuse or abuse of linguistic expressions to refer to it, the systematic refusal to use the word genocide, the justification and rationalization, the attempt to explain it and the recourse to revisionist history. |
| Rwanda was a stable and a strong kingdom before the arrival of Europeans. |
| Rwanda is described as the smallest country on earth, the poorest, landlocked and overpopulated. |
| Holocaust Revealed (7433 words) |
| In practice, church-state relations were not always smooth, since Yuhi V Musinga, who served as king from 1896 to 1931, resented the power of the missionaries and frequently opposed the church, but the missionaries nevertheless sought his approval. |
| The missionaries maintained excellent relations with Mutara III Rudahigwa, who served as king until his death in 1959, and under his reign the church flourished.(9) The idea that gaining the support of state leaders assures the smooth functioning of the church thus became accepted doctrine for Catholic leaders in Rwanda. |
| The complicity of the churches in the genocide is not merely a failing of Christianity in Rwanda, but of world Christianity as it has established itself in Africa, and it should lead people of faith throughout the world to question the nature of religious institutions and the ways in which they exercise their power. |
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