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The Debris of Ham

Ethnicity, Regionalism, and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

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The Debris of Ham

Ethnicity, Regionalism, and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

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In the attempt to explain the mass killings of the Tutsi of Rwanda in April-July 1994, books written about the 1994 Rwandan genocide have focused on ethnicity at the expense of other factors, including the acrimonious history of regional politics in Rwanda since the turn of the twentieth century. In The Debris of Ham, Aimable Twagilimana argues that while ethnic ideology provided the materials for the relentless propaganda against the Tutsi and the Hutu of the political opposition in 1990-1994, in a parallel mode, regional politics provided the sine qua non that made the 1994 Rwandan genocide possible. This book investigates the juxtaposition of ethnicity and regionalism in Rwandan politics, and the unfolding of the worst mass murder at the end of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Abbreviations
Chapter 2 Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction: From Auschwitz to Rwanda
Chapter 4 Framing Rwanda: Ethnic and Nationalist Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era
Chapter 5 The Hamatic Hypothesis and Rwandan Historiography
Chapter 6 The Debris of Ham: From the 1959 Hutu Revolution to the Institutions of Ethnic and Regional Otherness
Chapter 7 The Path to Genocide: Human Rights Violations as Genocide Rehearsals
Chapter 8 From Region to Nation: Ordinary Rwandans and the 1994 Genocide
Chapter 9 Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Chapter 10 Appendix: Some Important Dates in Rwandan History
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index

Product details

Published Jun 11 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 250
ISBN 9780761825852
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 5 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Aimable Twagilimana

Aimable Twagilimana, a native of Rwanda, is a Stat…

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