2022
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300305
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Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi

Abstract: English Abstract: The governments of Rwanda and Burundi exhume mass graves with the promise of revealing truths about the contested histories of past conflict and genocide. In Rwanda, exhumations recover and conserve the bodies of victims of the genocide against the Tutsi. Since December 2019, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Burundi has also begun mass exhumations; these efforts are motivated by truth-seeking and reconciliation aspirations that articulate a specific narrative of victimhood and state… Show more

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“…In her introduction, Zahira Aragüete-Toribio (2022) refl ects on the recent proliferation of forensic work in settings across the globe that has enabled new understandings and acknowledgements of mass crimes but also created new challenges for dealing with the past. Drawing on ethnographic case studies of forensic investigations in Colombia (Olarte-Sierra 2022), the USA (Wagner 2022), Rwanda and Burundi ( Jamar and Major 2022) and Mexico (Robledo Silvestre and Ramirez Gonzalez 2022), the issue examines the epistemic complexity that surrounds the production of knowledge in contexts profoundly infl uenced by contested political dynamics, diverse historical experiences of extreme violence and socioculturally situated understandings of death and collective and familial bereavement. (Aragüete-Toribio 2022: 2) Th e authors analyse diff erent motivations (like national commemoration, mourning or justice) that drive diff erent social actors (e.g.…”
Section: Dealing With the Pastmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In her introduction, Zahira Aragüete-Toribio (2022) refl ects on the recent proliferation of forensic work in settings across the globe that has enabled new understandings and acknowledgements of mass crimes but also created new challenges for dealing with the past. Drawing on ethnographic case studies of forensic investigations in Colombia (Olarte-Sierra 2022), the USA (Wagner 2022), Rwanda and Burundi ( Jamar and Major 2022) and Mexico (Robledo Silvestre and Ramirez Gonzalez 2022), the issue examines the epistemic complexity that surrounds the production of knowledge in contexts profoundly infl uenced by contested political dynamics, diverse historical experiences of extreme violence and socioculturally situated understandings of death and collective and familial bereavement. (Aragüete-Toribio 2022: 2) Th e authors analyse diff erent motivations (like national commemoration, mourning or justice) that drive diff erent social actors (e.g.…”
Section: Dealing With the Pastmentioning
confidence: 99%