Readers of Conflict Health will be familiar with the politics of body counts, but this takes it to a whole new level:
Erlinder, seen above at a June 20 news conference after his release, was detained in Rwanda on allegations that he was minimizing the country’s 1994 genocide, which is prohibited under Rwandan law. Erlinder was in Rwanda to defend opposition leader Victoire Ingabir, who was arrested in April and charged with challenging aspects of the genocide. Controversially, Erlinder said yesterday that there might be enough evidence to show that more ethnic Hutus died than Tutsis. The accepted view is that of the 800,000 people killed over 100 days, most were Tutsis who perished at the hands of Hutus.
Christopher R. Albon is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy.
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