ABSTRACT
The Rwanda genocide did not start on 6 April 1994 and did not end three months later in July when 800,000 moderate Hutu and Tutsi had been slaughtered. Mahmood Mamdani (2001), for one, claims that the genocide of the Tutsi started in 1959. Whether or not the slaughter of 30,000 Tutsi between 1959 and 1966 can be characterized as genocide, almost all scholars agree that “test runs” of the genocide began as early as 1991. Further, the genocide continued from bases in Zaire and actually spread into Zaire in 1996 until the refugee camps of the genocidaires were destroyed in November (Adelman and Suhrke 1999).
