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During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 up to half a million women and children, predominantly Tutsi, suffered large-scale rape and other types of sexual violence because of both their ethnicity and their gender.
Michela Fusaschi
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‘Who Was I to Stop the Killing?’ Moral Neutralization among Rwandan Genocide Perpetrators
Genocide represents an extreme form of violence on both the individual and collective level. As such, individuals seek to reframe their participation in violence, drawing from certain “techniques of neutralization.” These techniques may function both ...
Kjell Anderson
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Background More than one million Rwandans were killed over a span of one hundred days during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. Many adult survivors were severely traumatized by the events, and young people, including those who were born after the ...
Marie Grace Kagoyire +2 more
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“I am Rwandan”: unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda [PDF]
Drawing on a corpus of ten oral interviews with survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, we examine how the government’s policy of unity and reconciliation has shaped post-genocide identities and intergroup relations ...
Blackie, Laura E. R. +6 more
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The Rwandan Genocide: Modernity and Ambivalence
This article situates itself in the theoretical space between the field of genocide, and postcolonial studies, advocating for a closer relationship between the two, particularly in relation to the emerging field of postcolonial genocide.
Balorda, Jasna
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Alternative Patterns of Literary Progress: Writing about Rwanda in the Wake of Trauma
This article discusses three books about the 1994 genocide against Rwandan Tutsis, all of which belong to the “Writing as a Duty to Memory” project: two novels by Boubacar Boris Diop and Abdourahman Waberi respectively, and a travel journal by Véronique ...
Maria Chiorean
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Violence Against Women in the Rwandan Genocide [PDF]
Throughout history, genocides have proven to be amongst the most violent atrocities committed by the human race. The Rwandan genocide was no different. In 1994, between April and July, approximately 800,000 Rwandans were killed.1Occurring only a couple ...
D’Arville, Cecilia
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study [PDF]
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This study analyses current conceptualisations of rape as a "tool of war" in various academic disciplines and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The
Smith, Stacy E
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Utilizing survey data from 302 men and women incarcerated in the Rwandan correctional system for the crime of genocide, and structured interviews with 75 prisoners, this mixed methods study draws on the concept of recovery capital to understand how ...
Kevin Barnes-Ceeney +3 more
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The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria.
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