Brian Crano discusses how Philip Gourevitch's We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed changed his understanding of the Rwandan genocide. The book examines how political manipulation and propaganda drove Hutus to kill Tutsis in 1994, revealing the mechanics of mass violence.
The Hutus end up killing, I don't.
Know, a million, a.
Million of the Tutsis, and to the point where, like, if you were a Hutu and you wouldn't kill them, you would be killed.
That was the threat. Like in Germany or like in Russia, you have to tell on your, you know, you have to give up your friends, you have to give up your wife. Point was they would call the tootsies cockroaches. There were phenotypic differences that made them easy to spot.
Which they were tall and skinnier and.
Yeah, they were, had thinner features or something. Yeah, and longer, longer features. And then the, the, the, the government, the Hutu power government, which was setting this all into action, did what Putin has done, did what many people have done, which is to stage violence against their own people, to then start violence against their target.
