I don't know if it's specifically about the Rwanda Genocide but it definitely follows the general idea. In the 1994 Genocide, there were two "races" of people, the Tutsis and the Hutus. The difference between them was height or something, something insignificant - but Colonial studies started stating that the Tutsis must have come from Europe. It formed a split and they started stating their "race" on their ID cards.
Anyway, in the Genocide the Hutus were trying to rid the world completely of Tutsis. A local radio station encouraged everybody, to pick up a machete and start killing Tutsis, belting ideas of "it's us or them". Normal villagers killed their neighbours. Hence, ordinary people doing fucked up things when fucked up things become ordinary.
I don't know if it's specifically about the Rwanda Genocide but it definitely follows the general idea. In the 1994 Genocide, there were two "races" of people, the Tutsis and the Hutus. The difference between them was height or something, something insignificant - but Colonial studies started stating that the Tutsis must have come from Europe. It formed a split and they started stating their "race" on their ID cards.
Anyway, in the Genocide the Hutus were trying to rid the world completely of Tutsis. A local radio station encouraged everybody, to pick up a machete and start killing Tutsis, belting ideas of "it's us or them". Normal villagers killed their neighbours. Hence, ordinary people doing fucked up things when fucked up things become ordinary.