The Rwanda Crisis: History of a GenocideColumbia University Press, 1995 - 389 sidor In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had been building steadily for years before it captured the attention of the world. In The Rwanda Crisis, journalist and Africa scholar Gérard Prunier provides a historical perspective that Western readers need to understand how and why the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass. Prunier shows how the events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic, a plan that served central political and economic interests, rather than a result of ancient tribal hatreds--a notion often invoked by the media to dramatize the fighting. The Rwanda Crisis makes great strides in dispelling the racist cultural myths surrounding the people of Rwanda, views propogated by European colonialists in the nineteenth century and carved into "history" by Western influence. Prunier demonstrates how the struggle for cultural dominance and subjugation among the Hutu and Tutsi--the central players in the recent massacres--was exploited by racially obsessed Europeans. He shows how Western colonialists helped to construct a Tutsi identity as a superior racial type because of their distinctly "non-Negro" features in order to facilitate greater control over the Rwandese. Expertly leading readers on a journey through the troubled history of the country and its surroundings, Prunier moves from the pre-colonial Kingdom of Rwanda, though German and Belgian colonial regimes, to the 1973 coup. The book chronicles the developing refugee crisis in Rwanda and neighboring Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s and offers the most comprehensive account available of the manipulations of popular sentiment that led to the genocide and the events that have followed. In the aftermath of this devastating tragedy, The Rwanda Crisis is the first clear-eyed analysis available to American readers. From the massacres to the subsequent cholera epidemic and emerging refugee crisis, Prunier details the horrifying events of recent years and considers propsects for the future of Rwanda. |
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The Hutu Republic 19591990 | 42 |
The good years | 74 |
Slouching towards Democracy July 1991June 1992 | 127 |
1 | 142 |
9 | 149 |
The Arusha Peace Marathon June 1992August 1993 | 159 |
16 | 168 |
41 | 178 |
The atmosphere of the regime | 256 |
Opération Turquoise and Götterdämmerung in Central | 281 |
The new government and the cholera apocalypse | 299 |
Turquoise is going away the problems remain 121 August | 305 |
Aftermath or new beginning? 22 August31 December | 312 |
Living in a broken world | 356 |
Bibliography | 390 |
394 | |
54 | 188 |
Chronicle of a massacre foretold 4 August 1993 | 192 |
Genocide and renewed war 6 April14 June 1994 | 213 |
61 | 250 |
Glossary | 400 |
Abbreviations | 408 |
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African Rights akazu April army Arusha agreement attack August authorities Banyarwanda Belgian Bihozagara Bizimungu bourgmestres Brussels Burundese Burundi Butare cabinet camps church civil civilian Colonel crisis Cyangugu death December Defence democratic élite ethnic exile extremists fact Faustin Twagiramungu February fighting forces foreign former France Internationale French genocide Gisenyi Goma guerrillas Habyarimana regime Human Rights humanitarian Hutu ideology Interahamwe Interview journalist July June Kabgayi Kagame Kigali killed killers Kivu later Libération March massacres military militiamen Ministry Mitterrand Mobutu Monde MRND MRND(D murder Museveni negotiations NGOs November October officers Opération Turquoise opposition parties organised Paris Pasteur Bizimungu peace peasants political population préfecture President Habyarimana President's Prime Minister problem Radio Rwanda refugees Ruhengeri Rwandaise Rwandese situation slaughter social soldiers SWB/Radio Tanzania tion troops Turquoise Tutsi Uganda UNAMIR UNHCR victims violence Zaïre