| Description |
1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Language |
Originally published in French in 2008. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Genocide -- Political aspects -- Rwanda.
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Genocide -- Social aspects -- Rwanda.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Njoya, Wandia, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kimonyo, Jean Paul. Rwanda's popular genocide : a perfect storm. Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016 xi, 404 pages ; 24 cm 9781626371866 |
| ISBN |
9781626371866 (alk. paper) |
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9781626375420 (electronic bk.) |
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