{"id":38777,"date":"2025-08-12T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-persistance-d-une-imposture-intellectuelle-38777\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:52:52","slug":"La-persistance-d-une-imposture-intellectuelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-persistance-d-une-imposture-intellectuelle\/","title":{"rendered":"La persistance d\u2019une imposture intellectuelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sa d\u00e9marche, empreinte d\u2019un acad\u00e9misme exigeant, conjugue la patience du chercheur \u00e0 la minutie de l\u2019historien ; il accumule, avec une constance exemplaire, les \u00e9l\u00e9ments factuels et les rep\u00e8res historiques, \u00e9rigeant ainsi ses interventions en d\u00e9monstrations difficilement vuln\u00e9rables aux approximations ou aux effets de rh\u00e9torique. Et Filip Reyntjens en subit les effets dans une r\u00e9plique d\u2019une limpidit\u00e9 implacable, qui ne laisse place \u00e0 nulle \u00e9quivoque.<\/p>\n

Le Ministre Bizimana entame en disant qu\u2019il n\u2019est pas dans ses usages d\u2019accorder l\u2019honneur d\u2019une r\u00e9plique \u00e0 M. Filip Reyntjens. Toutefois, la gravit\u00e9 de ses \u00e9garements l\u2019oblige \u00e0 briser ce silence volontaire. <\/p>\n

Sa propension \u00e0 travestir les faits historiques, \u00e0 \u00e9riger des mensonges patiemment construits en v\u00e9rit\u00e9s approximatives, confine d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 une caricature d\u2019\u00e9rudition. La d\u00e9formation m\u00e9thodique des \u00e9v\u00e9nements, au profit d\u2019une grille de lecture partiale, trahit moins une simple erreur d\u2019analyse qu\u2019une volont\u00e9 persistante de nourrir un r\u00e9cit id\u00e9ologiquement orient\u00e9.<\/p>\n

{{Le militantisme masqu\u00e9 sous les oripeaux de la science}}<\/p>\n

Reyntjens se range parmi ces militants irr\u00e9ductibles dont l\u2019inconsolable amertume nourrit une posture obstin\u00e9e, et qui, loin de se plier \u00e0 l\u2019imp\u00e9ratif de la rigueur factuelle, revendiquent avec une d\u00e9sarmante constance une mauvaise foi presque revendicative. <\/p>\n

Chez lui, l\u2019examen critique c\u00e8de le pas \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense opini\u00e2tre d\u2019un narratif pr\u00e9con\u00e7u, si bien que la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 historique, plut\u00f4t que d\u2019\u00eatre recherch\u00e9e avec impartialit\u00e9, se voit ploy\u00e9e, infl\u00e9chie et model\u00e9e au service d\u2019une grille id\u00e9ologique immuable.<\/p>\n

Les avertissements, pourtant r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9s, de la communaut\u00e9 historienne quant \u00e0 ses sympathies av\u00e9r\u00e9es pour le Parmehutu ne semblent en rien temp\u00e9rer ses ardeurs propagandistes. <\/p>\n

Au contraire, il persiste et signe, s\u2019abritant derri\u00e8re un vernis acad\u00e9mique pour mieux accr\u00e9diter des th\u00e8ses que l\u2019on croirait sorties des pamphlets les plus dat\u00e9s. Cette obstination \u00e0 maintenir ses biais au rang d\u2019arguments d\u00e9montre que l\u2019on n\u2019est plus, ici, sur le terrain de l\u2019histoire, mais bien dans celui de l\u2019id\u00e9ologie militante.<\/p>\n

{{R\u00e9habiliter l\u2019histoire face aux r\u00e9cits d\u00e9voy\u00e9s}}<\/p>\n

Face \u00e0 de telles d\u00e9rives, la responsabilit\u00e9 intellectuelle impose de r\u00e9tablir les faits avec la pr\u00e9cision et l\u2019int\u00e9grit\u00e9 qui s\u2019imposent. L\u2019histoire n\u2019est pas un champ de man\u0153uvre pour ambitions partisanes, mais un espace sacr\u00e9 o\u00f9 la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 se doit de primer sur l\u2019opinion. <\/p>\n

La complaisance envers les discours falsifi\u00e9s n\u2019aboutit qu\u2019\u00e0 perp\u00e9tuer des blessures m\u00e9morielles et \u00e0 fragiliser la compr\u00e9hension collective des trag\u00e9dies pass\u00e9es. \u00c0 ceux qui, comme Reyntjens, travestissent l\u2019histoire pour servir une cause id\u00e9ologique, il faut opposer la vigilance, la m\u00e9thode et la fermet\u00e9 afin que la m\u00e9moire, elle, demeure\u00a0irr\u00e9prochable.<\/p>\n

\"Reyntjens<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avant de songer \u00e0 engager un d\u00e9bat, f\u00fbt-il courtois ou pol\u00e9mique, avec le Dr Bizimana, ministre rwandais, il convient de s\u2019armer d\u2019arguments d\u2019une irr\u00e9prochable solidit\u00e9. L\u2019homme, fid\u00e8le \u00e0 une rigueur presque classique dans son acception la plus noble, ne transige ni avec la pr\u00e9cision documentaire ni avec la v\u00e9rification m\u00e9thodique. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000064461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000064461,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pr_cp-4.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000064461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38777"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38777"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}