ABSTRACT

This article examines the concept of genocide denial as a security threat within the case study of Rwanda. Rwanda experienced the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi when an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were butchered by extremists within a one-hundred-day period. Since the ending the genocide the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) continues to dominate the post-genocide nation's political sphere. The remnants of genocide perpetrators initiated Rwanda to militarily and politically intervene in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since the end of the Second Congo War in 2002, Rwanda's security interests shifted from fearing the destruction of the state to ontological insecurities founded on a threat of genocide ideology. This research examines whether Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the RPF mobilises genocide denial through a securitisation framework as a method to legitimise its control over the nation's political institutions and to deflect criticism. However, by examining the deficits within this discourse, it becomes possible to understand how Rwandans perceive genocide denial as part of a large threat that is a repetition of the genocide.

摘要

本文在卢旺达的案例研究中，将否认种族灭绝作为一种安全威胁的概念进行了研究。卢旺达经历了 1994 年针对图西人的种族灭绝，当时估计有 80 万图西人和政治温和的胡图人在一百天内被极端分子屠杀。自种族灭绝结束以来，卢旺达爱国阵线（RPF）继续主导着种族灭绝后国家的政治领域。种族灭绝肇事者的残余促使卢旺达在军事和政治上干预邻国刚果民主共和国（DRC）。自 2002 年第二次刚果战争结束以来，卢旺达的安全利益从害怕国家毁灭转变为基于种族灭绝意识形态威胁的本体不安全感。这项研究调查了卢旺达总统保罗·卡加梅和 RPF 是否通过安全化框架动员否认种族灭绝作为一种方法，使其对国家政治机构的控制合法化并转移批评。然而，通过检查这种话语中的缺陷，就有可能理解卢旺达人如何将否认种族灭绝视为种族灭绝重复的巨大威胁的一部分。