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Rwanda's popular genocide : a perfect storm / Jean Paul Kimonyo ; translated from the French by Wandia Njoya.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016Description: 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626375420 (e-book)
Uniform titles:
  • Rwanda, un génocide populaire. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rwanda's popular genocide : a perfect storm.DDC classification:
  • 304.6/630967571 2 3
LOC classification:
  • DT450.435 .K5413 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Historical background -- The pre-colonial period -- The colonial period -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- The years of hegemony (1973-1990) -- The discourse of reconciliation and the continued policy of exclusion -- Attempt to create a rural totalitarian state -- A brief and fragile economic recovery (1974-1986) -- Insubordination, social violence and despair -- War, multipartism and genocide -- The MRND party-state resistance to change -- The political opposition at the root of the genocide -- Butare: origins of the prefecture's political moderation -- Historical background -- Butare under the Second Republic -- Tolerance, violence and genocide in Butare -- The October 1990 war -- Multipartism in Butare -- Genocide in the prefecture --Kigembe: a social and political history -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- Political radicalism in Kigembe -- The impact of the 1990 war on Kigembe -- The multiparty era -- Genocide in Kigembe -- Kibuye: land conflict and political violence -- Historical and social context -- The final years of the MRND party-state -- Popular mobilization, war and the transition to democracy -- Multipartism in Kibuye prefecture -- : moderate politics and genocide in Gitesi commune -- 1984-1990: social crisis and the rise of subversive behavior -- War and multiparty rule -- Genocide in gitesi commune -- General conclusion: massive popular participation in the genocide.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical background -- The pre-colonial period -- The colonial period -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- The years of hegemony (1973-1990) -- The discourse of reconciliation and the continued policy of exclusion -- Attempt to create a rural totalitarian state -- A brief and fragile economic recovery (1974-1986) -- Insubordination, social violence and despair -- War, multipartism and genocide -- The MRND party-state resistance to change -- The political opposition at the root of the genocide -- Butare: origins of the prefecture's political moderation -- Historical background -- Butare under the Second Republic -- Tolerance, violence and genocide in Butare -- The October 1990 war -- Multipartism in Butare -- Genocide in the prefecture --Kigembe: a social and political history -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- Political radicalism in Kigembe -- The impact of the 1990 war on Kigembe -- The multiparty era -- Genocide in Kigembe -- Kibuye: land conflict and political violence -- Historical and social context -- The final years of the MRND party-state -- Popular mobilization, war and the transition to democracy -- Multipartism in Kibuye prefecture -- : moderate politics and genocide in Gitesi commune -- 1984-1990: social crisis and the rise of subversive behavior -- War and multiparty rule -- Genocide in gitesi commune -- General conclusion: massive popular participation in the genocide.

Originally published in French in 2008.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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CHOICE Review

This belated, revised publication, first released in French in 2008, is an important contribution to the voluminous literature on Rwanda. Accomplished scholar Kimonyo (Rift Valley Institute) has also been senior adviser to President Kagame. Kimonyo's research mainly attempts to explain how and why such a significant proportion of the Hutu population facilitated the mass murder of Tutsi and moderate Hutu as well. To a great extent, he is successful. Historical memories of mass violence that benefited Hutus in 1959, extreme land and food shortages that came to a head in the 1980s, and divisive "ethnic" practices under President Habyarimana led to a collapse of traditional civility by 1994. By then, the potential for a policy of total genocide was rooted in the political culture. But Kimonyo persuasively refutes arguments that such a policy was decisively provoked by the president's death, radio propaganda, or even fears of Rwanda Patriotic Front aggression in this exhaustive, theoretically grounded analysis. The book includes well over three dozen tables with demographic and economic data as well as maps to clarify the presentation. Academics may disagree on some aspects of the catastrophe, but all should find this book useful. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Paul G. Conway, SUNY College at Oneonta

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