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Who Must Die in Rwanda's Genocide?
The State of Exception Realized
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2015
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This book provides a juridical, sociopolitical history of the evolution of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Over one million citizens were massacred in less than 100 days via a highly organized, efficiently executed genocide throughout the tiny country of Rwanda. While genocide is not a unique phenomenon in modern times, a genocide like Rwanda’s is unique. Unlike most genocides, wherein a government plans and executes mass murder of a targeted portion of its population, asking merely that the majority population look the other way, or at most, provide no harbor to the targeted population (ex: Germany), the Rwandan government relied heavily on the civilian population to not only politically support, but actively engage in the acts of genocide committed over the 100 days throughout the spring of 1994. This book seeks to understand why and how the Rwandan genocide occurred. It analyzes the colonial roots of modern Rwandan government and the development of the political “state of exception” created in Rwanda that ultimately allowed the sovereign to dehumanize the minority Tutsi population and execute the most efficient genocide in modern history.
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2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1864-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1865-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
159
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations and Terms No access
Chapter One: Prelude to Genocide No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter Two: Rwandan Government and Propaganda No access Pages 21 - 44
Chapter Three: Pre-Colonial Rwanda Meets Belgian Rule No access Pages 45 - 64
Chapter Four: From Kayibanda to Habyiramana No access Pages 65 - 96
