Why it’s much better to describe the plight of women in war zones without seeking to whitewash their crimes
Rakiya Omaar and Rachel Sevenzo: Sisters at War, 18 February 1999
What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa
edited by Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya.
Zed, 180 pp., £39.95, April 1998,9781856495370 Show More
edited by Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya.
Zed, 180 pp., £39.95, April 1998,
“... community’. The oversimplifications are even more glaring in the chapter on Rwanda, where Clotilde Twagiramariya argues that all Rwandan women – whether they are Hutus or Tutsis – have suffered equally; that Tutsi survivors of the genocide and Hutu refugees are enduring ‘another kind of Calvary, beyond their ethnic labels, just because they ... ”
