The genocide in Rwanda is a peculiar genocide. It's probably the only genocide in history in which the self-identified leaders of a minority ethnic group who were victims of genocidal fury of a faction of the majority ethnic group won the civil war and became the power elite ruling over the majority group (while selectively incorporating a few of the majority group into the government). Since it's so unlike the other genocides (of Jews, American Indians, Armenians, Cambodians, etc.) that one may justly wonder if the label doesn't obscure rather than reveals Rwanda's past and present, such as the nature of the civil war in Rwanda, Paul Kagame's relation to Yoweri Museveni, Kagame's and Museveni's relations to Washington, and Kagame's and Museveni's interventions in Congo, and so on.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>