Mahmood Mamdani - "When Victims Become Killers" - A discussion on identity in Rwanda
The Rwandan genocide should serve as a prime example of the power of propaganda and the result of pitting one group against another. When each of these groups was clearly categorized, it was as though the colonizers re-wrote history and force-fed it to them in order to have a strong hold on the entire population. It was this class segregation that directly led to the nationalist movement between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda between 1959 …
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…mentally.
These identities implanted by the colonizers led these two groups, who once lived together in harmony, to start attacking each other. If it weren't for the separation of the two groups, and the placement of one as superior to the other, the genocide may not have taken place. Each saw a good reason as to why they should be allowed to kill so many people, because both of their perceptions of the nation clashed.
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