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<p><P>In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had been building steadily for years before it captured the attention of the world. </P><P>In <i>The Rwanda Crisis</i>, journalist and Africa scholar G&eacute;rard Prunier provides a historical perspective that Western readers need to understand how and why the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass. Prunier shows how the events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic, a plan that served central political and economic interests, rather than a result of ancient tribal hatreds &#151; a notion often invoked by the media to dramatize the fighting.</P><P> <i>The Rwanda Crisis</i> makes great strides in dispelling the racist cultural myths surrounding the people of Rwanda, views propogated by European colonialists in the nineteenth century and carved into history by Western influence. Prunier demonstrates how the struggle for cultural dominance and subjugation among the Hutu and Tutsi &#151; the central players in the recent massacres &#151; was exploited by racially obsessed Euro

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Author

Gérard Prunier

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231104081

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science