ABSTRACT
During the genocide in Rwanda, from April to June 1994, between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed within a time span of 100 days. The expert in African history and politics Mahmood Mamdani argues that the genocide in Rwanda was a genocide carried out by those who saw themselves as native Rwandans against those they saw as settlers. For the Hutu, the Tutsi was an alien, not a neighbour. Tutsis and neutral Hutus were sometimes shot to death, but most often they were murdered with machetes, clubs, arrows, and axes. Theoneste Bagosora and his cohorts had been planning the genocide down to the smallest detail since the autumn of 1992—more specifically, two years before the genocide was actually incited. These leaders provided the genocidal process with a destructive ideology that functioned as a driving force. The role they played in instigating destructive processes in a sufficiently large part of the population was devastating.
