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We Cannot Forget
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ISBN: 1283864444 0813551064 9780813551067 0813549698 9780813549699 0813549701 9780813549705 9781283864442 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press

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During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide. Through powerful stories that are at once memorable, disturbing, and informative, readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide.


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100 days
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ISBN: 1772121541 1772121525 9781772121520 9781772121216 9781772121537 1772121533 9781772121544 1772121215 9781772121216 Year: 2016 Publisher: Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press,

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For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem--each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father--the poet Okot p'Bitek; Anglican hymns; the rhythms and sounds of slave songs from the Americas; and the beat of spoken word and hip-hop. 100 Days is a collection of poetry that will stop you in your tracks.


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Requiem, Rwanda.
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ISBN: 9781609174446 1609174445 9781611861587 1628951362 1611861586 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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A marvelous, moving new collection of poems, Requiem, Rwanda has its roots in 2006, when Laura Apol made her first trip to Rwanda. Apol's initial goal was to develop, in conjunction with Rwandan and American colleagues, a project using narrative writing to facilitate healing among young survivors of the 1994 genocide. During the time she spent leading workshops, Apol felt moved to write her own poems, and after the writing-for-healing project ended, she returned to Rwanda several times to continue her creative work. The legacy of the genocide-on the people, on the land itself-makes its presen


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The ignorant bystander?
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ISBN: 9780719098239 0719098238 9781781708828 1781708827 9780719095238 0719095239 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester

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The Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events in the late 20th century and the international community's response has stimulated a great deal of interest and debate ever since. In this study, Dean White provides as thorough a review of Britain's response to the crisis written to date.


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Monetary policy in Rwanda : 1964 - Present
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ISBN: 9813367466 9813367458 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,


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Rwanda since 1994 : stories of change
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ISBN: 1789623618 1786943441 1786941996 9781786943446 9781786941992 Year: 2019 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has understandably been retrospective, seeking to understand, document and commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi, this volume gathers diverse perspectives on the changing social and cultural fabric of Rwanda since 1994. Rwanda Since 1994 considers the context of these changes, particularly in relation to the ongoing importance of remembering and in wider developments in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions. Equally it explores what stories of change are emerging from Rwanda: creative writing and testimonies, as well as national, regional, and international political narratives. The contributors interrogate which frameworks and narratives might be most useful for understanding different kinds of change, what new directions are emerging, and how Rwanda's trajectory is shaped by other global factors.

The international set of contributors includes creative writers, practitioners, activists, and scholars from African studies, history, anthropology, education, international relations, modern languages, law and politics. As well as delving into the shifting dynamics of religion and gender in Rwanda today, the book brings to light the experiences of lesser-discussed groups of people such as the Twa and the children of perpetrators.

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Prelude to genocide : Arusha, Rwanda, and the failure of diplomacy
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ISBN: 0821446509 0821423339 Year: 2018 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana's plane in April 1994 rekindled the civil war and opened the door to genocide. In Prelude to Genocide, Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences to seek out what went wrong. How did the course of political negotiations in Arusha and party wrangling in Kigali, Rwanda, bring to naught a concentrated international effort to establish peace? And what lessons are there for other international humanitarian interventions? The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis that is a milestone read on the Rwandan crisis and on what happens when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short. Published in partnership with the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series.

Brickyards to graveyards : from production to genocide in Rwanda
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ISBN: 0791454878 0791488020 058548922X 9780585489223 0791454886 9780791454886 9780791454879 9780791488027 Year: 2002 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade later. The brick and tile industries of Rwanda provide a microcosm to examine the transformation of gender, class, and power relations through the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods, and provide insights into the explosive impact of these changes on Rwandan culture and society. The book illustrates how these gender, class, and power relations played out in times of economic, political, and demographic crisis, and argues that these factors have not changed significantly since the Rwandan Patriotic Front took power in 1994.


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The comfort of strangers : the impact of Rwandan refugees on neighbouring countries
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ISBN: 9782015415 2821819684 9791092312096 Year: 1995 Publisher: IFRA-Nigeria

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The Comfort of Strangers gives detailed information on the background to the Rwandan refugee problem and a vivid portrayal of the effects of the mass exodus of Rwandans into Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Zaire. The global community has, over the past eighty years, put in place an international refugee regime to regularize the status and provide for the control of stateless people ail over the world. Although host communities may initially open their doors to large numbers of people fleeing from their homelands, the long-term impact on the host countries is usually devastating and not often taken into account. This includes environmental dégradation, diminishing food security, dépréciation of the infrastructural base, pressure on the social and health sectors 3nd security risks. These Iead to sympathy fatigue and resentment. This book embodies an in-depth report made for UNCHS (Habitat) on the Rwandan refugee crisis and makes recommendations for its resolution, including compensation for host communities to enable them restore basic infrastructures and increase administrative capacity. Dr. Adisa also calls for a more efficient and humane treatment of the refugees and for their assisted resettlement.

Re-imagining Rwanda : conflict, survival and disinformation in the late twentieth century
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ISBN: 1107133343 1280419776 1139148109 0511180098 0511064799 0511058462 0511323832 0511491093 0511073259 9780511064791 9780511491092 9780511058462 9780511073250 9781280419775 9786610419777 6610419779 9780511323836 0521813662 9780521813662 0521528739 9780521528733 0521533082 9780521533089 9781107133341 9781139148108 9780511180095 Year: 2002 Volume: 102 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was able to impose a simple yet persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators new to the region, and he explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. He also provides a sobering analysis of the way in which this simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation on the ground led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis. Professor Pottier has extensive field experience in the region, from before and after the genocide, and he has also worked among refugees in eastern Zaire.

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