Abstract
Can the slaughter of perhaps as many as a million people in three months of the 1994 Rwandese civil war be given an understandable explanation? How could this disaster take place in a community comprised of two groups that speak the same language, share the same religion, belong to the same clans and inhabit the same hills? These two questions can be merged and transformed into one main issue that is dealt with in this chapter: Why did the Bahutu and the Batutsi in Rwanda organize themselves to kill each other — what was the civil war in Rwanda really about?1 The issue has preoccupied my mind since the outbreak of full-scale civil war in 1994. It is my conviction that the cruelty of such conflicts as the one in Rwanda disgrace the dignity of the human kind and should be avoided in the future. But in order to achieve that ambition, we ought to know why they do occur.
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