Subtitle
L'historienne Julie d'Andurain, membre de la « commission sur le rôle et l'engagement de la France au Rwanda », a déclenché une vaste polémique par sa vision du génocide des Tutsis. Réagissant aux critiques dont elle est l'objet, elle parle à présent de l'extermination comme d'« une séquence au sein d'un ensemble plus vaste », et estime que « tous les génocides ne se valent pas ». Sa position devient intenable.
Abstract
The article in Le Canard enchaîné of October 28, 2020 arouses controversy over historian Julie d'Andurain who wrote a notice on Operation Turquoise in the 2018 edition of the Dictionary foreign operations of the French army . She makes gross factual errors and numerous omissions. Instead of talking about the genocide of Tutsis, she mentions massacres between Hutus and Tutsis
. It is the participation of this historian in the commission on Rwanda chaired by Vincent Duclert that rises a problem. Blamed, Julie d'Andurain said she was the victim of a media lynching
and alerted his fellow researchers. Three associations of researchers have published a message of support. Following the protest of two historians, Annette Becker and Jean-Pierre Chrétien, who considered that d'Andurain's text was at the heart of the negation
, the majority of the members of the board of the French Society for the History of the Overseas (SFHOM), which had defended d'Andurain, have resigned.