Jonathan Vincent’s Reviews > When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda > Status Update

The moment of appropriation targeted the beneficiaries of the old order. In doing so, it tended to unify the victims. In contrast, the moment of redistribution disaggregated this latter group- because it created out of this group the beneficiaries of the new order.

In it's motivation and construction, I argue that the Rwandan genocide needs to be understood as a natives' genocide. It was a genocide by those who saw themselves as sons and daughters of the soil, and their mission as one of clearing the soil of a threatening alien presence.