Name: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
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Author: Mahmood Mamdani
ISBN: 9780691192345

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mahmood Mamdani

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

392

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780691192345

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

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "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 was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

Mahmood Mamdani

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Mahmood Mamdani es profesor de Gobierno Herbert Lehman y de Antropología y Estudios de Oriente Medio, Asia Meridional y África en la Universidad de Columbia. Fue director del Instituto Makerere de Investigación Social en Kampala de 2010 a 2022. Entre sus libros se incluyen "Ni colono ni nativo", "Ciudadano y súbdito", "Cuando las víctimas se convierten en asesinos" y "Buen musulmán, mal musulmán".

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