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