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The Rwanda crisis : history of a genocide
Prunier, Gerard.
Adult Nonfiction DT450.435.P78 1995
Prunier, Gerard.
Adult Nonfiction DT450.435.P78 1995
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| Contents | Page |
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| Foreward Map of Rwanda | |
| 1 - Rwandese Society and the Colonial Impact: The Making of a Cultural Mythology (1894-1959 | |
| The physical setting The Tutsi, the Hutu and the Abazungu Myths and realities of pre-colonial Rwandese society | |
| Rwandese society | |
| The dynamics of Rwandese history The colonial impact | |
| the Germans | |
| The Belgians | |
| The 'Rwandese ideology' | |
| 2 - The Hutu Republic (1959-1990) | |
| The 1959 muyaga and its consequences | |
| The Kayibanda years (1961-1973) | |
| The refugee problem | |
| The question of numbers | |
| Life in the diaspora | |
| The Ugandan factor The Habyarimana regime | |
| The good years | |
| The atmosphere of the regime | |
| The crisis | |
| The RPF prepares for war | |
| 3 - Civil War and Foreign Intervention (October 1990-July 1991) | |
| The RPF strike and the first days of fighting | |
| Foreign intervention | |
| Settling down into a war culture | |
| The reorganisation of the RDF | |
| The advent of multiparty politics | |
| 4 - Slouching towards Democracy (July 1991-June 1992) | |
| The problems of democratisation | |
| War and violence as parts of the political process | |
| The new multiparty cabinet and the opening of peace negotiations | |
| Hardlines, democrats and warriors in the Hutu/Tutsi context | |
| 5 - The Arusha Peace Marathon (June 1992-August 1993) | |
| The economic situation | |
| Peace and its enemies | |
| Negotiations feed the rise of extremism | |
| The February war and its aftermath | |
| Peace through exhaustion | |
| 6 - Chronicle of a massacre foretold (4 August 1993-6 April 1994) | |
| Waiting for UNAMIR Ndadaye's murder: the shock and its exploitation | |
| Hanging on to the cliff's edge | |
| 7 - Genocide and renewed war (6 April-14 June 1994) | |
| The enigma of President Habyarimana's death | |
| The second week of April 1994 | |
| The Genocide | |
| Who were the organisers? | |
| Who were the killers? | |
| Who were the victims? | |
| Were there any bystanders? | |
| Patterns of killing | |
| The horrors | |
| Complexities of the situation | |
| Unknown heroes | |
| How long did it last? | |
| How many were killed? | |
| The refugees The war From the outside looking in | |
| 8 - 'Operation Turquoise' and Gotterdammerung in Central Africa (14 June-21August 1994) | |
| Deciding and preparing for the intervention (14-23 June) | |
| From the intervention to the fall of Kigali (23 June-4 July) | |
| The fall of the northwest and the refugee explosion (4-19 July) | |
| The new government and the cholera apocalypse (19 July-1 August) | |
| 'Turquoise is going away, the problems remain' (1-21 August) | |
| 9 - Aftermath or new beginning? (22 August-31 December 1994) | |
| The new refugee problem | |
| Reconstruction and internal insecurity | |
| What sort of political structure? | |
| The attitude of the international community | |
| Towards a provisional conclusion | |
| Bibliography | |
| Glossary | |
| Abbreviations |
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