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📘 You are standing at a Kigali roadblock

You are standing at a Kigali roadblock, where an identity card could decide whether someone lived.

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What you’ll learn

  1. Before the killingExplain how colonial categories, post-independence politics, war, exile, and failed implementation of Arusha shaped the conditions before the 1994 genocide.Longer histories and political choices created the setting in which organized violence became possible.
  2. The 1994 ruptureAnalyze how the plane crash, roadblocks, propaganda, local authorities, and UNAMIR’s limits shaped the genocide’s execution and international response.The killing was organized through institutions, messages, armed networks, and constrained international action.
  3. After the genocideEvaluate how RPF victory, regional displacement, international and local justice, memory, and prevention shaped the aftermath.Ending the killing began a long struggle over protection, accountability, memory, and prevention.

Questions this course answers

Why does historical context matter without excusing perpetrators?

Context explains conditions and mechanisms; it does not erase individual responsibility.

What did roadblocks do during the genocide?

Roadblocks connected administrative identification with organized violence against targeted civilians.

Why was UNAMIR’s presence not enough to protect Rwanda?

The mission was constrained by mandate, force size, equipment, and member-state decisions.

Why did justice require several levels of courts and proceedings?

International, national, and community mechanisms handled different parts of a vast accountability problem.

Which distinction best supports both justice and reconciliation?

Individual accountability avoids collective blame while still naming and prosecuting responsibility.

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