Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994

Taylor, Christopher Charles

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Langue : anglais

Edité par -Berg -, 1999

1859732739 / 9781859732731

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First edition Berg 1999 before the Routledge logo. x+197 pages with index. Pictorial boards. Near fine. No dustjacket issued. Ask to see our other Death or African Studies. In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompanying him threatened with, or sustaining, bodily harm. Finally, active hostilities between the antagonists escalated on April 7, 1994, just hours after the Rwandan President's plane was shot down. During the author's evacuation from Rwanda in the months following, he interviewed many survivors. This book, the outcome of the author's experiences during the conflict, is an attempt to understand the atrocities committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which nearly one million people, mostly of Tutsi ethnicity, were slaughtered in less than four months. Beyond this, the author shows that political and historical analyses, while necessary in understanding the violence, fail to explain the forms that the violence took and the degree of passion that motivated it. Instead, Rwandan ritual and practices related to the body are revelatory in this regard, as the body is the ultimate tablet upon which the dictates of the nation-state are inscribed. One rather bizarre example of this is that Hutu extremists often married or had sexual relations with Tutsi women who, according to the Hamitic hypothesis, were said to be sexually alluring. Their mixed-race offspring were not exempt from the genocide. Finally, and perhaps most importantly in light of the recent resurgence of violence, the author advances hypotheses about how the violence in Rwanda and Burundi might be transcended.…

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Titre
Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
Auteur
Taylor, Christopher Charles
Éditeur
-Berg -
Année de publication
1999
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1859732739
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781859732731
Série
Livre 6 sur 6: Global Issues
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Paul Brown

Ramsgate, Royaume-Uni

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