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Genocide never happens by chance. Nowhere was this more true than in Rwanda between April and July 1994 when thousands of hate-inspired Hutu extremists carried out a well-organized campaign of killing, rape, and mutilation that left more than 800,000 dead in 100 days. Most of the casualities were members of the minority Tutsi ethnic group, the rest were moderate Hutus who advocated peaceful coexistence with their Tutsi neighbors. While so much is horrific about the Rwanda genocide, nothing is more horrific than the fact that many of the large-scale massacres took place in churches- most of them Roman Catholic churches. People who sought sanctuary in church buildings instead were slaughtered there. In fact, more people were killed in church buildings than anywhere else. Thus many people have questioned the churches role in the Rwanda genocide. This book is intended to encourage discussion about the following questions: Were the churches complicit in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? If so, how and why? How must the Church be changed to prevent genocide from happening again in the future? Can the church recover from such ethical and moral failures? -- adapted from Preface
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Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches?
March 2004, Paragon House Publishers
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"Encounters between religion and the political sphere (or between Church and State as it is customary to depict such interactions in Western societies) have never lacked either intensity or complexity."
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