Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered

René Lemarchand

Chapter 2 in The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa, 2005, pp 48-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide are two of the most terrifying and complex catastrophes of the 20th century. Whether measured by the scale of the atrocities committed against Jews and Tutsi, the distinctiveness of their collective identities, and the deliberate, purposeful manner of their annihilation, there are compelling reasons for seeing in the Rwanda carnage a tropical version of the Shoa. Little wonder if time and again the better known of the two has been used as the paradigmatic frame for analysing the other.

Keywords: Trusteeship Authority; Mass Murder; Racist Ideology; Rwandan Genocide; Armenian Genocide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523890_3

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