{"id":260,"date":"2014-04-07T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T23:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=260"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:07:48","slug":"remembering-rwanda-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/04\/07\/remembering-rwanda-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Rwanda 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on April 6, 1994, the Rwandan genocide <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwandan_Genocide\">lasted nearly 100 days leaving an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 dead.\u00a0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2014\/4\/7\/20_years_later_rwanda_commemorates_genocide\">While the campaign to exterminate the Tutsi-minority was led by Hutu extremists<\/a>, it would be a mistake to hold a single group responsible for this mass atrocity.\u00a0 Comparative studies of other conflicts show that it would also be a mistake to consider genocide an anomaly.<\/p>\n<h5>While we often see the conflict as a clash of racial or ethnic groups, the cycle of violence is often part of larger structural forces that form <i>political<\/i> identities through privileged rule.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/369\">Mahmood Mamdani<\/a>.\u00a0 2001.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/7027.html\"><i>When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda.<\/i>\u00a0 <\/a>Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Sexual and racialized violence are some of the most well-known parts of genocide, but conflicts over property and the political construction of difference are also elements which occur earlier and may act as warning signs.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.northwestern.edu\/people\/faculty\/john-hagan.html\">John Hagan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/sociol\/faculty_staff\/bios\/rymondrichmond.html\">Wenona Rymond-Richmond<\/a>. 2009. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/law\/criminal-law\/darfur-and-crime-genocide?format=PB\"><i>Darfur and the Crime of Genocide<\/i><\/a>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Comparative studies of atrocities in other contexts can also show how societies remember suffering.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/soc\/faculty.html\">Robyn Autry<\/a>. 2010. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/summer-2010\/memory-materiality-and-the-apartheid-past\/\">Memory, Materiality, and the Apartheid Past.<\/a>\u201d <i>Contexts <\/i>9(3): 46-51<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.edu\/lacs\/sutton.shtml\">Barbara Sutton<\/a>. 2010. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/summer-2010\/situating-memory-in-argentina\/\">Situating Memory in Argentina.<\/a>\u201d <i>Contexts <\/i>9(3): 52-57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further reading, check out this TSP feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/specials\/the-crime-of-genocide\/\">The Crime of Genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on April 6, 1994, the Rwandan genocide lasted nearly 100 days leaving an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 dead.\u00a0 While the campaign to exterminate the Tutsi-minority was led by Hutu extremists, it would be a mistake to hold a single group responsible for this mass atrocity.\u00a0 Comparative studies of other conflicts show that it would also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1956,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,13,85],"tags":[38547,470,129,38546],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-media","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2014\/04\/4351539244_6eff1ac7ca_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}