Rwanda, genocide, ethnicity, Hutus, Tutsis, ethnic cleansing, Raphael Lemkin, Notre-Dame du Nil High School, Rwandan society, Prix Renaudot
This dissertation explores the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, examining the roots of the conflict and the specificity of the genocide aspect.
[...] What competes with it? At what point does the notion of genocide apply to a massacre? How to articulate it in the case of Rwanda? ? To what extent does the specificity of the 1994 Hutu massacre account for a genocide perpetrated by the Hutus in the will to establish a latent ethnic cleansing? Plan: I. If the Tutsi massacre is the result of latent racism A. Rwanda is a country composed of several ethnic groups 1. The multicultural aspect of Rwanda ? [...]
[...] Maintaining racism towards the Tutsis 1. Racism latent ? Historical source 2. Based on physical aspects ? Doc 36 II. The events of 1994 inscribe themselves within the paradigm of a genocide A. Massacres are perpetrated 1. Violent massacres and perpetrated against the Tutsis ? Doc and 35 2. Systematically ? Doc 36 and 35 B. These massacres are institutionalized: accounting for a genocide 1. The institutionalization of the massacre ? Doc 36 and 35 2. A genocidal massacre ? [...]
[...] A genocide consecrating the Hutus 1. A place already affirmed ? Doc 34 2. Demonstrating a political will ? Doc 35 B. Who must prevent the limits of ethnicity 1. Shown limits ? Doc 35 2. And demonstrating the particular concept of ethnicity ? Sources plus politiques, showing also the duty of memory. References: 34. Rwandan Independence Day and its repression, Excerpts (2000) - Jean R. Hubert (1965) 35. A Season of Machetes, Excerpts - Jean Hatzfeld (2003) 36. In the Skin of a Beast. [...]
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