Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

We regret that the continuing misrepresentations of Alex Obote-Odora’s latest disingenuous response to us compel us to respond to him one last time.[1]

Taking his major misrepresentations in the order that he himself presents them:

Alex Obote-Odora, a former Chief of Appeals and Legal Advisory Division at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), must take the readers of Pambazuka News as extremely gullible.

It is widely recognized by independent analysts and observers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that it is a creature largely of the United States and Britain, established in late 1994 to support the Rwandan dictatorship of Paul Kagame’s Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (R

On October 1, 2014, a remarkable event occurred in Britain.

In his June 17 'review' of our book The Politics of Genocide, for Pambazuka News,[i] Gerald Caplan, a Canadian writer who Kigali's New Times described as a 'leading authority on Genocide and its prevention,'[ii] focuses almost exclusively on the section we devote to Rwanda and the Democratic Repu