By some estimates more than a million and a half people were killed in Rwanda during just two weeks in April 1994. In this penetrating analysis, Canadian scholar Josias Semujanga, a Rwandan by birth, examines the social mechanisms, the historical factors, and the 'discourse of hate' that culminated in this mind-boggling act of genocide. Semujanga's brilliant analysis offers many insights into not only the Rwandan tragedy but also the mechanisms of ideology, language, and political system that can contribute to genocide anywhere.
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Josias Semujanga is associate professor of literature at the University of Montreal, visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, and the author or editor of ten books and numerous scholarly articles.
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Historical account of Rwandan Genocide,
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A thorough investigation that describes the various elements that culminated in the Rwandan Genocide. This book is written from a historical perspective. While the author's personal feelings are transparent, is is not enough to derail the conversation from history beginning with Belgian occupation. In fact, it is not until the Conclusion that the author describes detailed accounts of atrocities. It is at times dry, but a necessary read if you are interested in the Rwandan Genocide.
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For more than three decades, Rwandan political life has been under the monstrous influence of a racist ideology based on the spreading of hatred, the culmination of which was the April 1994 genocide of the Tutsi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bishop Classe, White Fathers, Operation Turquoise, Great Lakes, Aux Sources, Christian Rwanda, President Habyarimana, Bishop Perraudin, Ferdinand Nahimana, United Nations, Blue Berets, Louis de Lacger, General Habyarimana, Governor Harroy, Jesus Christ, Justin Kalibwami, Kayibanda Government, King Mutara, Alexis Kagame, Church of Rwanda, Colonel Logiest, Filip Reyntjens, Jean-Paul Harroy, Jeune Afrique, Mortehan Law New!
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For more than three decades, Rwandan political life has been under the monstrous influence of a racist ideology based on the spreading of hatred, the culmination of which was the April 1994 genocide of the Tutsi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bishop Classe, White Fathers, Operation Turquoise, Great Lakes, Aux Sources, Christian Rwanda, President Habyarimana, Bishop Perraudin, Ferdinand Nahimana, United Nations, Blue Berets, Louis de Lacger, General Habyarimana, Governor Harroy, Jesus Christ, Justin Kalibwami, Kayibanda Government, King Mutara, Alexis Kagame, Church of Rwanda, Colonel Logiest, Filip Reyntjens, Jean-Paul Harroy, Jeune Afrique, Mortehan Law New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier on 4 pages
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With O by Philip Gourevitch in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies by Frank Chalk on page 70, and Back Matter
- Genocide: A Sociological Perspective by Helen Fein on page 70, and Back Matter
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani in Front Matter
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- Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community by Linda Melvern in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives (Religion and Politics series) by Paul Christopher Manuel on page 187
- Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches by Carol Rittner in Back Matter
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