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Mahmood Mamdani

When Victims Become Killers

Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-10280-1
  • EAN: 9780691102801
  • Produktnummer: 9811774
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 382 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 614 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 614

Über den Autor


Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton), which won the Herskovitz prize of the African Studies Association. Among his other books are The Myth of Population Control, From Citizen to Refugee, and Politics and Class Formation in Uganda. He is currently President of the Dakar-based Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

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