Research Catalog

Title

Remembering genocides in Central Africa / René Lemarchand.

Author

Lemarchand, René

Publication

• London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xix, 150 pages : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century, Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the author challenges conventional wisdom and suggests a new perspective for making sense of the appalling brutality that has accompanied the region's post-independence trajectories. All four states adjacent to Rwanda are inhabited by Hutu and Tutsi and thus contained in germ the potential for ethnic conflict, but only in Burundi did this potential reach genocidal proportions when, in 1972, in response to a local insurrection, at least 200,000 Hutu civilians were killed by a predominantly Tutsi army. By widening his analytic lens the author shows the critical importance of the Burundi bloodshed to an understanding of the roots of the Rwanda genocide, and in later years the significance of the mass murder of Hutu civilians by Kagame's Tutsi army, not just in Rwanda but in the Congo. The regional dimension of ethnic conflict, traceable to Belgian-engineered Hutu revolution in Rwanda in 1959, three years before its independence, is the principal missing piece in the genocidal puzzle of the Great Lakes region of central Africa. But this is by no means the only one. Reassembling the missing pieces within and outside Rwanda is not the least of the merits of this highly readable reassessment of a widely misunderstood human tragedy.

Series Statement

Mass violence in modern history ; 7

Uniform Title

Mass violence in modern history ; 7.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Genocide > Africa, Central > History > 20th century
• Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
• Genocide > Burundi > History > 20th century
• Ethnic conflict > Africa, Central > History > 20th century
• Ethnic conflict
• Genocide
• Central Africa
• Rwanda

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-144) and index.

Contents

A region awash in violence -- Rwanda 1959-1962 : where it all began -- Burundi 1972 : a genocide too far? -- The view from Uganda : refugee warriors at the gates -- Mass murders in Rwanda : unhealable wounds -- Concluding thoughts : lessons learned (and unlearned).

Call Number

Sc E 22-737

ISBN

• 9780367654153
• 0367654156

OCLC

1197724692

Author

Lemarchand, René author.

Title

Remembering genocides in Central Africa / René Lemarchand.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Mass violence in modern history ; 7

Mass violence in modern history ; 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-144) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: U. FLORIDA. ANALYSIS OF THE HUTU/TUTSI ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-737