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Conveys how one of the world's newest nations came into being and survived, against all odds.

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The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gérard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees...

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A measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the key features of Ethiopian society and politics

In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had been building steadily for years before it captured the attention of the world. In The Rwanda Crisis, journalist and Africa scholar Gérard Prunier provides a historical perspective that Western readers need to understand how and why the brutal mas...

Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu fled to Zaire. The two parties clashed when the Rwandan government attacked the refugee camps in September 1996, forcing some of the refugees back home and killing others.

Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800, 000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996.

In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had been building steadily for years before it captured the attention of the world. In The Rwanda Crisis, journalist and Africa scholar Gérard Prunier provides a historical perspective that Western readers need to understand how and why the brutal mas...

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