Author: Mahmood Mamdani
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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
“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…