Quote by Jeffrey Gettleman

“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.”

— John Rucyahana

“...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent…

— John Rucyahana

“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like…

— Roméo Dallaire

“Even more horrifying was the “Rwandan Genocide” that witnessed the mass slaughter of nearly one million Rwandan Tutsis in only 100 days, by the…

— Michael C. Grumley

“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary…

— Philip Gourevitch

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this…

— Dinaw Mengestu

To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.

— Kofi Annan

“The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've told Rwandans it's not just what you think of for yourselves, but what others think of us.

— Paul Kagame

“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are…

— Chris Bojolian

“The pygmy in Gikongoro said that humanity is part of nature and that we must go against nature to get along and have peace.…

— Philip Gourevitch