Rwanda: The genocide against the Tutsi
- Al Jazeera UntanglesHow colonial identity, extremist politics and ‘hate radio’ helped turn Rwanda’s genocide into organised mass murder.
- This episode on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda examines one of the few mass atrocities universally recognised under international law.
- It traces how colonial rule hardened fluid social categories into fixed Hutu and Tutsi identities, and how post-independence politics turned these into a racialised hierarchy of fear.
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- Al Jazeera UntanglesHow colonial identity, extremist politics and ‘hate radio’ helped turn Rwanda’s genocide into organised mass murder.
- This episode on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda examines one of the few mass atrocities universally recognised under international law.
- It traces how colonial rule hardened fluid social categories into fixed Hutu and Tutsi identities, and how post-independence politics turned these into a racialised hierarchy of fear.
Sources: Al Jazeera