The Rwandan Crisis: History of a Genocide. (Never again? Perpetrators and bystanders in Rwanda).

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 27, 2002| Author: Haynes, Stephen R. | Copyright information

The Rwandan Crisis: History of a Genocide. By Gerard Prunier: Columbia University Press, 389 pp., $46.50; paperback, $20.00.

I VIVIDLY REMEMBER riding in a car during the summer of 1994 and listening with rapt attention to an account of the tragedy in Rwanda. In just 100 days, following a government coup in early April, some 800,000 Rwandans were ruthlessly murdered by their countrymen. When I arrived home, I located Rwanda on a map. For several weeks I paid close attent...

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