Based on ethnographic research in post-genocide Rwanda, this article analyzes two different approaches to the Politics of Memory in Rwanda: the "living memory" in the José Kagabo's experience and the "duty of memory " in the official memorializations. The institutionalization of the rwandan memorial sites provides a narrative of the massacres through the places, showing limits and contradictions about of a new national story telling. Je propose d'ores et déjà un thème: la fabrique du témoin et les usages du témoignage José Kagabo Premessa Mettere insieme memorie e memoriali connessi alla tragica esperienza del genocidio dei rwandesi tutsi del 1994 non è, a nostro avviso, un semplice gioco di parole quanto piuttosto un esercizio di analisi del politico nel momento in cui ci si riferisce ad un contesto «altamente politicizzato» [Thomson 2010] quale è il Rwanda del post genocidio. Per altro, già in altre occasioni abbiamo osservato quanto questo evento e le
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