When victims become killers colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda

"When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement is the realizati...

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Autor principal: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press 2002
Edición:3rd print., 1st paperback print
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  • Counter List of Abbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Thinking about Genocide 3 1. Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship: Settler and Native as Political Identities 19 2. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi 41 3. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism 76 4. The ''Social Revolution'' of 1959 103 5. The Second Republic: Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity 132 6. The Politics of Indigeneity in Uganda: Background to the RPF Invasion 159 7. The Civil War and the Genocide 185 8. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo 234 Conclusion: Political Reform after Genocide 264 Notes 283 Bibliography 343 Index 357