About the Author

André Guichaoua is a professor of sociology, specializing in the African Great Lakes region, at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He served as an expert witness on the Rwandan genocide before several courts and judicial bodies, including the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of the United Nations.

Don E. Webster is a former senior legal counsel and prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he worked from 1999 to 2012.

Reviews

"A definitive account from an accomplished researcher and a primary witness for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The book is a comprehensive telling of the events leading to genocide and the evolution of genocidal policy by state actors." --Choice

"A landmark in the historiography of the Rwandan genocide. No serious scholar writing about the genocide can afford to ignore this trailblazing contribution."--René Lemarchand, author of The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

"Dispels myth after myth about the Rwandan genocide and Rwandan history."--Washington Post

"Magisterial. . . . Guichaoua makes a compelling case that the scaling up of violence to genocidal levels was progressive and tied at least in part to the escalation of the civil war and the timid and ineffectual international response to the initial violence. A profound implication of this revisionist history is that individual decisions on the part of both Rwandans and outsiders could have prevented the genocide even weeks after the onset of ethnic-based mass killing."--Foreign Affairs