- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Maps
- Introduction From Help to Rescue
- Part 1 Between History and Memory
- 1 From the Memory of Rescue to the Institution of the Title of “Righteous”
- 2 In Search of “The Righteous People”
- 3 Assistance to Jews and to Allied Soldiers and Airmen in France
- 4 Researching the Survival and Rescue of Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe
- 5 Anti-Semitism and the Rescue of Jews in France
- 6 Who Dared to Rescue Jews, and Why?
- 7 Rescue and Self-Interest
- 8 Italian Jews and the Memory of Rescue (1944–1961)
- 9 Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers Duringthe Rwanda Genocide
- Part II The State, its Borders and the Conditions for Aid
- 10 Rescue Practices During the Armenian Genocide
- 11 Ottoman Officials Against the Armenian Genocide
- 12 Conversion And Rescue
- 13 Humanitarianism and Massacres
- 14 The Swiss Reaction to the Nazi Genocide
- 15 The OSE and the Rescue of Jewish Children, from the Post-War to the Pre-War Period
- 16 The Context of Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Europe
- 17 The “Brunner Aktion”
- 18 “Guide And Motivator” or “Central Treasury”? The “Joint” in France, 1942–1944<sup>1</sup>
- 19 The BBC Hungarian Service and Rescue of Jews of Hungary, 1940–1945
- 20 From “Rescue” to Violence
- 21 Crossing a Border to Escape
- Part III Networks, Minorities and Rescue
- 22 Beatrice Rohner's Work in the Death Camps of Armenians in 1916
- 23 The Impossible Rescue of the Armenians of Mardin
- 24 Was the UGIF an Obstacle to the Rescue of Jews?
- 25 Roundups, Rescue and Social Networks in Paris (1940–1944)
- 26 Protestant Minorities, Judeo-Protestant Affinities and Rescue of the Jews in the 1940s
- 27 Nieuwlande, Land of Rescue (1941/1942–1945)
- 28 Surviving Undetected
- 29 Social Cohesion and State of Exception
- Conclusion Rescue, a Notion Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers Duringthe Rwanda Genocide
Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers Duringthe Rwanda Genocide
RETHINKING STANDARD CATEGORIES OF ANALYSIS
- Chapter:
- (p.145) 9 Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers Duringthe Rwanda Genocide
- Source:
- Resisting Genocide
- Author(s):
Lee Ann Fujii
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on ‘acts of rescue’ — deliberate actions that people took to keep another person from being killed — committed by various people during the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Starting with the observation that it was extremely difficult to hide Tutsis during neighbourhood massacres, the chapter challenges the existing categories of ‘perpetrators’, ‘victims’, and ‘rescuers’ and instead calls for a greater emphasis on acts such as those performed by individuals in a given situation. It argues that analysts should take into account ‘acts of killing’ and ‘acts of rescue’, instead of thinking only of ‘perpetrators’ and ‘rescuers’. It also shows how perpetrators and bystanders engaged in acts of rescue during the Rwandan genocide.
Keywords: acts of rescue, Tutsis, genocide, Rwanda, perpetrators, victims, rescuers, acts of killing, bystanders
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Maps
- Introduction From Help to Rescue
- Part 1 Between History and Memory
- 1 From the Memory of Rescue to the Institution of the Title of “Righteous”
- 2 In Search of “The Righteous People”
- 3 Assistance to Jews and to Allied Soldiers and Airmen in France
- 4 Researching the Survival and Rescue of Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe
- 5 Anti-Semitism and the Rescue of Jews in France
- 6 Who Dared to Rescue Jews, and Why?
- 7 Rescue and Self-Interest
- 8 Italian Jews and the Memory of Rescue (1944–1961)
- 9 Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers Duringthe Rwanda Genocide
- Part II The State, its Borders and the Conditions for Aid
- 10 Rescue Practices During the Armenian Genocide
- 11 Ottoman Officials Against the Armenian Genocide
- 12 Conversion And Rescue
- 13 Humanitarianism and Massacres
- 14 The Swiss Reaction to the Nazi Genocide
- 15 The OSE and the Rescue of Jewish Children, from the Post-War to the Pre-War Period
- 16 The Context of Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Europe
- 17 The “Brunner Aktion”
- 18 “Guide And Motivator” or “Central Treasury”? The “Joint” in France, 1942–1944<sup>1</sup>
- 19 The BBC Hungarian Service and Rescue of Jews of Hungary, 1940–1945
- 20 From “Rescue” to Violence
- 21 Crossing a Border to Escape
- Part III Networks, Minorities and Rescue
- 22 Beatrice Rohner's Work in the Death Camps of Armenians in 1916
- 23 The Impossible Rescue of the Armenians of Mardin
- 24 Was the UGIF an Obstacle to the Rescue of Jews?
- 25 Roundups, Rescue and Social Networks in Paris (1940–1944)
- 26 Protestant Minorities, Judeo-Protestant Affinities and Rescue of the Jews in the 1940s
- 27 Nieuwlande, Land of Rescue (1941/1942–1945)
- 28 Surviving Undetected
- 29 Social Cohesion and State of Exception
- Conclusion Rescue, a Notion Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
