"In September 1996, in the aftermath of the Rwandese Genocide, a multinational African force led by Rwanda invaded what was then Zaire, with the aim of crushing the remnants of the genocidaire regime and of overthrowing that long time friend of the West, the dictator Marshal Mob…
"In 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy for the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi majority."
This title analyses the intersection of ethnic discourse Rwandan politics, and Catholic social teaching during the critical final decade of Belgian colonial rule, exploring the many-threaded roots of the ethnic and political mythos that culminated with the 1994 genocide.
This book focuses on the history of the Catholic church in Rwanda and its response to the era of ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi (1952-1962) that later developed into genocide.
"Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with the 1994 genocide. In analyz…
This title analyses the intersection of ethnic discourse Rwandan politics, and Catholic social teaching during the critical final decade of Belgian colonial rule, exploring the many-threaded roots of the ethnic and political mythos that culminated with the 1994 genocide.