When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

Mahmood Mamdani

364 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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....

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