ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses newsprint representations of remembering the Rwandan genocide in 2014 across selected newspapers from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. It explains that such representations produced orientalised effects amplified by racialised representations of the Rwandan Other. The chapter examines how the Rwandan genocide was represented in newsprint media on its twentieth anniversary in April 2014. Attention to numbers and facts embodied Western newsprint media's fascination with the Rwandan genocide, as did attention to Rwanda's progress 20 years on. At the heart of Agamben's approach to the camp is the idea of the paradigm. Agamben's approach to the camp is relevant because it grapples with how political logic is exercised within particular spaces, constituted through historical and cultural tensions. The camp, then, is useful for suggesting that the Rwandan genocide was based on an extreme logic, a logic more complex than simple, which led to something exceptional, namely, the brutal killings of 800,000 Tutsis.
