The Fetishization Effect: The Manipulation Power of the Machete in the Rwandan Genocide

The perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide were the most efficient killers of the twentieth century, with 8000 victims per day at a modest count. Tribal tensions, Belgian Colonization, and the Church are frequently highlighted as foundational to the slaughter in 1994, but this paper suggests an additi...

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Main Author: Fallon, Breann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2017]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 319-333
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Civil War / Knives / Fetish / Manipulation
Further subjects:B Keywords: Rwandan Genocide
B Spirituality
B Communities
B fetishization
B RWANDAN Genocide, 1994
B Rwanda
B Violence Religious aspects
B perpetrator psychology
B Religious Violence
B machete
B Genocide
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