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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827177703321

Autore

Mayersen Deborah

Titolo

On the Path to Genocide : Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined / / Deborah Mayersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2014

ISBN

1-78238-285-2

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

956.620154

Soggetti

Armenians - Crimes against - Turkey

Genocide - Rwanda

Genocide - Prevention

Genocide - Turkey - History - 20th century

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 - Historiography

Genocide - History

History

Rwanda Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: 'The symptoms of an explosive situation' : the temporal model of genocide -- Part I. The Armenian genocide. 'Trying desperately to escape history' : the Armenian question ; 'A settled plan to slowly exterminate' : the Hamidian massacres ; 'They will have to be destroyed' : from massacre to genocide -- Part II. The Rwandan genocide. 'A European under black skin' : precolonial and colonial Rwanda ; 'A massive rejection of the Tutsi as fellow nationals' : race, violence and independence ; 'A cockroach gives birth to another cockroach' : from coexistence to extermination -- Part III. The path to genocide. 'Driven by ethnic exclusivism' : on the timing of genocide ; 'Our only hope, therefore, rests on the obstacle' : constraints against genocide ; 'A pattern ... repeated numerous times' : the wider applicability of the temporal model -- Conclusion: 'We are all brothers' : the temporal model and genocide prevention.

Sommario/riassunto

Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first



time in the history of the Ottoman Empire?  How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades of relative peace and even cooperation between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority? Addressing, for the first time, the question of how the risk of genocide develops over time, this book helps us to better understand why genocide occurs when it does. It provides a comprehensive historical analysis of the factors that led to the 1915 Ar