Mahmood Mamdani "When Victims Become Killers". A Discussion on Identity in Rwanda

The Rwandan genocide should serve as a prime example of the power of propaganda and the result of pitting one group against another. When each of these groups was clearly categorized, it was as though the colonizers re-wrote history and force-fed it to them in order to have a strong hold on the entire population. It was this class segregation that directly led to the nationalist movement between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda between 1959 and the genocide of 1994.
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