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What is missing from Gourevitch's account is the how and why of the killings.
It is one thing to describe the horror, another to explain the motivations that occasioned the carnage.
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The absence of attention to the history of the country creates a portrait of a genocide that is insensitive to the complexity of the circumstances.
In essence, Gourevitch's story reduces the butchery to the tale of bad guys and good guys, innocent victims and avatars of hate.
His frame of reference is the Holocaust.
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