Genocide
Subtitle: Rwanda and Burundi
By: Edward L. Nyankanzi.
Publisher: Schenkman Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Rochester, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Genocide -- Rwanda.; Genocide -- Burundi.; Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against.; Burundi -- Politics and government.; Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994.
Description: Genocide presents the historical framework surrounding the holocaust of Africa's two smallest countries, Rwanda and Burundi, where ethnic consciousness was almost nonexistent before German and Belgian colonialism.

With reports on the war between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples and the rebellion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), the author examines genocide - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group - from socio-historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives, tracing the practice of ethnic cleansing back to pre-biblical times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-177) and index.