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When Victims Become Killers
Mahmood Mamdani
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Beschreibung
An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide
"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 was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.
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Peasant, Indigenous peoples, Tribalism, Nazism, Political violence, Ethnic conflict, Africa, Rwandan Civil War, Coalition government, Writing, Politics, Decolonization, Government, Kingdom of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Gisenyi, Impunity, Refugee, Buganda, Luwero Triangle, Colonialism, Parmehutu, Civil society, State formation, Ankole, Apartheid, Colonization, Interahamwe, Rwanda, Local government, Political party, Slavery, Despotism, Jews, Kampala, Hutu Power, National Resistance Army, Yoweri Museveni, Burgomaster, Institution, Ethnic group, Tutsi, Rwandan genocide, Kinyarwanda, Identity politics, Tanzania, Hutu, Citizenship, Hamitic, Kenya, Refugee camp, Banyarwanda, Human Rights Watch, Kivu, Central Africa, Racism, Assassination, Belgians, Kigali, Burundi, East Africa, Political science, Ideology, Legislature, Racialization, Banyamulenge, Politician, Uganda, Political history, State (polity)