How Many Victims Were There in the Rwandan Genocide? A Statistical Debate

2020/01/01 by Jens Meierhenrich · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Cambodian History and Society

paper · doi:10.1080/14623528.2019.1709611

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Abstract

One of the thorniest methodological challenges in the study of genocide is counting the dead. In his important account of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Mahmood Mamdani wondered whether its dead coul...

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• Rwandan genocide [wikipedia]

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