Rwanda's popular genocide : : a perfect storm / / Jean Paul Kimonyo ; translated from the French by Wandia Njoya.

• VerfasserIn: Kimonyo, Jean Paul,
• TeilnehmendeR: Njoya, Wandia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder, Colorado : : Lynne Rienner Publishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English; French
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Table of 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.