Allan Stam: Understanding the Rwanda Genocide - Full version

Published 2011-03-11
Allan Stam, U-M Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, discusses the genocide, civil war, vendetta killings and random violence that took place in Rwanda in 1994. February, 2009. Watch this and many other great videos at: www.fordschool.umich.edu/video/

All Comments (21)
  • @TonyBradley2012
    This was a well clear and truth documentary about the long hidden reality in Rwanda. My sincere honor to Professor Allan Stam for his great effort in search for the truth. As someone who survived that genocide tragedy I can 100% testify that most of what Profesor Allan explain here all are coincidental, chronological, logical and correlational of what exactly happened in Great Lakes (Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire)  I am biomedical major student, but I am really interested in taking lecture from you.  You are really such a great and enlightening professor to expose the lie kagame has been using as tool to stay on power.
  • This dude is so inaccurate I don’t understand how they’d let him teach this nonsense at a university with false info only… so offending to watch for people like us who lost family and friends from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi
  • And the reason people call him a genocide denier is that he straight up calls the genocide at 30 minutes a civil war. That is genocide denial via Turkish methods.
  • Oh my god we have reached peak levels. At 53:30 he literally has a slide insinuating that it was not a genocide and claiming that it was a civil war while at the same time presenting on a slide the Armenian genocide as an example of actual genocide, A genocide which the Turks vehemently claim was not a genocide but instead civil war. You can't make this stuff up.
  • Great. Now, where is the map detailing the movement of the FAR, Interahamwe and general genociders?
  • @fubub3595
    Thanks for your work, haters and k'game will come here calling u nsmes
  • It's so horrible like honestly I'm trying my best. This isn't even close to an alternate view. This is like filled with distortions and half truths. "The relevant parts of history" totally skipping how colonialism racialised what was traditionally two social economic groups. Like that doesn't matter at all totally not relevant.
  • @ninirema4532
    very super dear prof mam great lecture . हजुरलाई नमस्कार छ🗻🌏🏝
  • @Arrbyy
    Two names I would associate with truth and honesty in connection with this dark episode are Keith Harmon Snow and Anthony Black. Probably Yves Engler would cover this well, if he has. I'm not sure. Global Research will no doubt have the unofficial (propaganda) story on it, for which reason Michel Chossudovsky has been, reportedly, threatened with lawsuits by imperialists (African and genocide experts) like Gerry Caplan. Allan casually enlists the aid (in how he quotes them) of imperialists like Samantha Powers and Alison Des Forges. By ignoring the background of the US and it's imperial designs, even implying that they wanted to intervene, a la R2P (right to protect which should be regarded as an imperial right to plunder, as Chomsky has explained well, including at the UN), Allan encourages the people to also not see that. He can't go so far as to exonerate Paul Kagame, but he does a good job of trying to, primarily be demonizing and dehumanizing the Hutu. Only Hutu would slaughter each other. Not.
  • Look to really understand who did it and how it began . Look at Rwanda Urundi before colonial, during colonial and rise to independence. My families escaped that shit since the 50’s. Watusi(Tutsi , Abatutsi ) , Wahutu ( Abahutu , Hutu ) it has never been an ethnic tribes . It was always been a social class.
  • @dawnbrown624
    Its amazing how whites didnt want to help but now want to have say in this tragedy. Smh sickening.
  • @fredking8759
    There is no comment because there are no words that can describe this genocide denier as he called himself in the beginning of his unfortunate presentation. He selected his message for an audience that has no knowledge of Rwanda history by completely omitting important information to prove his case of there are no good guys. This is a slap in the face of genocide survivors.
  • First of all, there is no Rwanda genocide, it was Genocide against Tutsi that happened in Rwanda.
  • @Arrbyy
    Allan should speak more carefully. And Wikipedia is problematic. I use it for main facts having to do with names and dates. I don't trust it beyond that because special interests can meddle with the entries. Common sense - that's informed - tells us that the RPF wasn't simply pushed out of Zaire/Congo (Zaire is the older name) and the Rwandans weren't just 'found', through unfortunate circumstances, to be in Congo (and therefore Allan's narrative, which overlooks that, is suspect). To put it another way, To the extent that Tutsis were 'found' in Uganda, that was simply a factor taken into account by the US, hovering and scheming in the background, who would use (well armed) Tutsi forces in Uganda to destabilize Rwanda and add it to the already destabilized, resource-rich Congo, as a prize to taken from both France (former colonizer) and the inhabitants. The cost to the people there didn't matter one bit. The official narrative is somewhat right, as long as you remember to reverse the image. The Hutus were the victims of what is being called genocide. And imperial tools who denounce genocide deniers are not denouncing them for denying that there was mass killing of an identifiable group, with a view to disappearing it, but rather, the deniers are denounced because they are identifying the actual victims of that, US-inspired, carnage.
  • @tashahall1855
    That’s what they do best, show up after the fact.