Rwanda : from genocide to precarious peace

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Label

Rwanda : from genocide to precarious peace

Title remainder

from genocide to precarious peace

Statement of responsibility

Susan Thomson

Title variation

Rwanda from genocide to precarious peace

Creator

• Thomson, Susan, 1968-

Author

• Thomson, Susan, 1968-

Subject

• HISTORY / Africa / General
• History
• History
• Politics and government
• Politics and government
• Rwanda
• Rwanda
• Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
• Rwanda -- History -- 1994-
• Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994
• Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 1962-1994
• Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 1994-
• Since 1962
• Rwanda -- History -- 1962-1994
• Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Susan Thomson, who witnessed the hostilities firsthand, has written a provocative modern history of the country, its rulers, and its people, covering the years prior to, during, and following the genocidal conflict. Thomson's hard-hitting analysis explores the key political events that led to the ascendance of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader, President Paul Kagame. This important and controversial study examines the country's transition from war to reconciliation from the perspective of ordinary Rwandan citizens, Tutsi and Hutu alike, and raises serious questions about the stability of the current peace, the methods and motivations of the ruling regime and its troubling ties to the past, and the likelihood of a genocide-free future

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

960

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DT450.44

LC item number

.T45 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography