Extensive anthropological study of the brick and tile industries of Rwanda provide a microcosm to examine the transformation of gender, class and power relations before and after the genocide of 1994. Index, notes, appendices, maps, tables, b/w photographs, bib, 162pp, UK. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, 0791454886

New and fully updated in paperback. An example of investigative journalism revealing the full story behind the genocide, detailing the involvement of world governments whose responses ranged from complicity to apathy. The author shows how the killers outmanoeuvred the Security Council and led the UN peacekeepers into a deadly trap. Index, maps, 384pp, UK. VERSO.

An account of Father Hormisdas' involvement in the killings in the Parish of Nyanza in Butare, using witness statements of survivors and his former staff. 43pp, UK. AFRICAN RIGHTS.

2001 189947739X A4 spiralbound

In 1994 the authors were evacuated from Rwanda as the genocide which would last a hundred days and kill over a million people began. This volume marks the fifth anniversary of the terror and is told by the people who survived. Historical and political analysis is balanced by testimonies from the speakers at the Conference held to mark the anniversary and to understand the impact of the tragedy and the failure of the world to respond adequately to the genocide. Index, bib, gloss, notes, 201pp, USA. HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 088258202X

Provides a variety of perspectives through which to assess the complex questions and issues surrounding the role of Christian churches during the Rwanda Genocide. Raises unsettling questions: Why did the churches allow clerics to preach ethnic hatred? Did the Church protect, reprimand, punish, excommunicate their adherents clergy, religious, and lay who were genocidaires before, during, and after the 1994 genocide? Index, bib, videography, apps, 319pp, USA. PARAGON HOUSE.

2003 SPIRALBOUND A4 REPORT

A Ghanaian peacekeeper in Rwanda describes his experiences of the chaos there, drawing lessons for the UN and other peacekeeping operations. BNS, col illus, 131pp, GHANA. WOELI PUBLISHING SERVICES.

1997 9964978162 Paperback

'The most outstanding contribution to the anthropology of Rwanda during the 1980s and 1990s' (Jan Vansina). Sometimes called the Land of a Thousand Hills, Rwanda has witnessed upheavals of massive proportions. Looking at the people of one hill community, Danielle de Lame shows how they coped with unprecedented change during the twilight years of Rwanda's Second Republic. In a meticulously researched study focusing on the late 1980s and early 1990s, de Lame situates this rural community, located at the heart of the Kibuye prefecture, within the larger context of Rwandan history and society. In this country without villages, it is the networks of kinship, administration, and commerce that create complex patterns of solidarity and dependency. De Lame reveals these patterns in all their intricacy, and her treatment of the region and its rhythms speaks at the same time to the economics of production, the inequalities of power, and the dynamics of social transformation. The ultimate goal of her work is to restore the individuality of the people she studied. BNS, 540pp, BELGIUM. ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA.

Account by United States ambassador to Rwanda between 1995 and 1999, this account draws on his thirty years of diplomatic experience in the region to analyze U.S. perceptions of Rwanda in the years before the genocide and to recount the unfolding of the terrible event itself. Describes how the new government and people of Rwanda, together with their international partners, confronted devastation, picked up the pieces, and began to forge a new nation. Index, bib, apps, glossary, 340pp, USA. iUNIVERSE.COM, INC.

Interviews with fourteen survivors of the Rwanda genocide. Of all ages, coming from different walks of life, from orphan teenage farmers to the local social worker, they talk of the genocide, the death of family and friends in the church and in the marshes of Bugesera to which they fled. They also talk of their present life and try to explain and understand the reasons behind the extermination. These horrific accounts of life at the very edge contrast with Hatzfeld's own vivid descriptions of Rwanda's villages and countryside in peacetime. B/w photos, 176pp, UK. SERPENT'S TAIL.

2005 185242883X Paperback GBP12.00

When a Rwandan news broadcaster was arrested by the government, Amnesty International and Reporters Sans Frontieres jumped to his defence, presenting his case as an example of political terror against journalists. According to this report, they did not investigate the charge against him of rape and mutilation, which abundant testimony suggests was probably justified. African Rights censures the organisations for hasty and ill-considered action, and a disregard for the rights of genocide victims. A4 pamphlet, 46pp, UK. AFRICAN RIGHTS.

Odom assisted the U.S. ambassador and served as the principal military advisor on Rwanda to the U.S. Department of Defence and National Security Council throughout his time in Rwanda. This book candidly reveals Odom's frustration with Washington as his predictions that a larger war was coming were ignored. Index, notes, b/w photos, 297pp, USA. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS.

For three months in the spring of 1994, the Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. Immaculee Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. This remarkable story of survival was documented first in LEFT TO TELL and this account takes up the story as she struggles to find meaning and purpose in the aftermath of the holocaust. 288pp, UK. HAY HOUSE.

Unusual and compelling response to the Rwandan genocide by the leading Chilean artist. Col ill, large format, SPAIN. ACTAR, 8489698449

Examines the implications of external, humanitarian intervention in the Rwandan genocide, woith the aim of extracting lessons for future crises. Notes, index, xii, 162pp, USA. BROOKINGS, 0815700857

In the spring of 1994, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and Moderate Hutus were killed in a horrific genocide. One Hundred Days of Silence is a scathing look at the challenges of humanitarian intervention, the history of U.S. policy toward the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and the role of genocide in the larger context of strategic studies. It looks at the principal questions of what the U.S. knew, and why it didn't intervene, and how non-intervention was justified within the American bureaucracy. 232pp, USA. ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS.

Argues that many of the widely held beliefs about the causes and course of genocide in Rwanda are incomplete. They focus largely on the actions of the ruling elite or the inaction of the international community. Considerably less is known about how and why elite decisions became widespread exterminatory violence. Provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research including the most comprehensive surveys yet undertaken among convicted perpetrators to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Index, apps, 273pp, USA. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A Rwandan author shows that a culture of hatred was promoted by radio and TV media, and that the state, through its army was directly responsible for preparing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, two years before it took place. BNS, 230pp, USA. HUMANITY, 1591020530

An analysis of the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Contains both a narrative account of that event and a re-examination of the inter-national role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies. Maps, notes, bib, index, xxi, 414pp, UK. TRANSACTION PUBLISHERS.

After the Holocaust, the victorious Allies pledged 'Never Again' to genocide. This promise, enshrined in the UN Convention on Genocide, stipulates a responsibility to try and prevent genocide or mitigate the suffering of its victims in the future. The book analyses what this responsibility might entail by asking the following questions: To what extent can external actors, such as the French Government, be held responsible for not preventing or not suppressing genocide, and how can this responsibility be evaluated? Why almost fifty years after the Genocide Convention did outsiders remain passive whilst Hutu extremists perpetrated genocide against the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates in Rwanda? How can French government responsibility be evaluated in the light of its actions/inaction? What was France's role? The book explores the historical and contextual background of the Rwandan genocide and French involvement in Africa. Index, bib, apps, 330pp, UK. HURST.

A consideration of genocide in the twentieth century looking at the Armenian and Jewish genocides in particular. Using this historical context the author then considers the Rwandan Genocide and looks at why the world community was slow to respond to the events in Rwanda. Index, notes, app, map, x, 92pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS, 0745310419

Second edition. Places the Rwandese catastrophe in the context of supreme genocidal acts such as the Nazi holocaust where the author believes it belongs. Argues that the killings were part of a carefully orchestrated plan, not the result of bloodlust and ancestral hatreds but a grotesque act of political mass murder. Revised edition with an additional chapter. Gloss, bib, index, 421pp, UK. HURST.

An expanded 1995 edition drawing on additional research in Rwanda, with additional information on events in the south and west up to 14.9.95.: a thorough analysis with chapters on the roots of conflict, the preparations and the people responsible for the massacres, the first days of the killings, media intimidation, confusions and cover ups, the unknown death count and ethnic cleansing, death camps, churches and hospitals, women and children, the killers, resistance, the RPF, international reaction. 1201pp, index, UK.

Now available, an updated and corrected edition, with index: a study of newsprint and radio journalism in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994. Explains how the state encouraged extremist media and the politics of ethnic hatred. French text. KARTHALA, 2865376214

1995 Paperback

Discusses the story of her ancient ethnicity, weaving into her narrative the dramatic events which make up Rwandan history from independence to the present day. While the Tutsi are again an integral part of the Rwandan nation, along with the Hutu and Twa, Mujawiyera seeks an answer to a very fundamental question: why did an entire ethnicity become the object of attempted physical extermination at the end of the Twentieth Century? Index, bib, 116pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY PUBLISHERS LTD.

This book paints in recent history in Rwanda: the unexpurgated story of a young woman reliving the horrors of the massacre, the dialogues between strangers meeting across the past, and Tadjo's own reflections. Her prose alternates between raw and poetic, but always remains discreet, respectful and dignified. The one thing that comes through her narrative voice is a ray of hope. This book reaches beyond the Rwandan conflict, reflects on violence and humanity with witness accounts and portrays guilt and innocence and promotes values of tolerance, peace and reconciliation. 144pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES

Written by the UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Rwanda in the mid nineties, this is the first account of the crisis in Rwanda by a major player charged with containing and resolving the disaster. Shows how the UN works on the ground and at headquarters and explores the problems of peacekeeping. For-ward by Mary Robinson. Index, Map, 16 b/w photos, bib, xi, 228pp, UK. I B TAURIS, 1860646166

Lt. Gen. Dallaire was commander of the UN mission to Rwanda in 1994. This is his account of the Rwandan genocide, highlighting the trauma of that experience and critiquing the significant failure of the outside world to halt the genocide. Index, gloss, maps, xviii, 562pp, UK. ARROW.

The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But, as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country - France - was secretly providing military, financial and diplomatic support to the genocidaires all along. Based on new interviews with key players and eye-witnesses, and previously unreleased documents, Wallis' book tells a story which many have suspected, but never seen set out before. This riveting expose of the French role in one of the darkest chapters of human history will provoke furious debate, denials, and outrage. 224pp, UK. IB TAURIS.

Interviews with nine Hutu killers, all of whom are now in prison, some awaiting execution. Hatzfeld elicits extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. Each describes what it was like the first time he killed someone, what he felt like when he killed a mother and child, and how he reacted when he killed a cordial acquaintance. Each reflects on his feelings of moral responsibility, his guilt, remorse, or indifference to the events. Hatzfeld suggests that such actions are within the realm of ordinary human conduct. 238pp, UK. SERPENT'S TAIL.

2005 1852428821 Paperback

Contextualises the Rwandan genocide by surfacing the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn on their neighbours. Mamdani finds answers in the nature of the political identities generated during colonialism, in the failures of the nationalist revolution to transcend these identities, and in regional demographic and political currents that reach well beyond Rwanda. In so doing, he broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in post?colonial Africa. Map, notes, bib, index, xvi, 364pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

An indictment of a Rwandan killer alleged to have murdered tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide. It also criticises the indecisiveness of the United Nations in tolerating the presence of such people in the refugee camps in Zaire and giving them protection to continue their crimes. B/w and colour photographs. 76pp, UK. AFRICAN RIGHTS, 1899477144