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 realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including even judges, human rights activists, and doctors, nurses, priests, friends, and spouses of the victims. Indeed, it is its very popularity that makes the Rwandan genocide so unthinkable. This book makes it thinkable. |
Contents
List of Abbreviations | ix |
Preface and Acknowledgments | xi |
Thinking about Genocide | 3 |
Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship Settler and Native as Political Identities | 19 |
The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi | 41 |
The Racialization of the HutuTutsi Difference under Colonialism | 76 |
The Social Revolution of 1959 | 103 |
The Second Republic Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity | 132 |
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