Journalist
Former editor of the French daily newspaper Libération and former deputy editor at Le Monde. For many years, Stephen Smith worked as a traveling correspondent for Radio France International and Reuters News Agency in West and Central Africa. He is a visiting professor at Duke University.
Ian Berry
Analysis
Not having seen the genocidal drift of Hutu Power in 1994 coming, the international community grants Paul Kagame's RPF the impunity of victims. Yet such power also lends itself to criminal acts. The authors express their indignance that NGOs and international organisations - invoking the duty of remembrance - join in the endless evocation of the past that masks the political phenomena at the root of the current violence.