This book shows how Rwanda s development model and the
organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the
absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the
labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to
stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential clan chose a
development model that would not change the political status quo.
When the latter was threatened, the elite invoked the preservation
of group welfare of the Hutu, called for Hutu unity and solidarity
and relied on the great mass (rubanda nyamwinshi) for the execution
of the genocide. A strategy as simple as it is horrific. The
genocide can be regarded as the ultimate act of self-preservation
through annihilation under the veil of self-defense.
Why did tens of thousands of ordinary people massacred tens of
thousands other ordinary people in Rwanda in 1994? What has
agricultural policy and rural ideology to do with it? What was the
role of the Akazu, the presidential clan around president
Habyarimana? Did the civil war cause the genocide? And what
insights can a political economy perspective offer ?
Based on more than ten years of research, and engaging with
competing and complementary arguments of authors such as Peter
Uvin, Alison Des Forges, Scott Strauss, Rene Lemarchand, Filip
Reyntjens, Mahmood Mamdani and Andre Guichaoua, the author blends
economics, politics and agrarian studies to provide a new way of
understanding the nexus between development and genocide in Rwanda.
Students and practitioners of development as well as everyone
interested in the causes of violent conflict and genocide in Africa
and around the world will find this book compelling to read.
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