Using a wealth of first-hand material, Eltringham explores how different groups within Rwandan society interpret the genocide of 1994. Exploring various interpretations and eye-witness accounts, he convincingly argues that these contradictions and competing interpretations give us important new insights into the past, and into the nature of the ways we can account for violence and genocide.

Acknowledgements / / Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. 'Ethnicity': The Permeant Debate / 2. The Pre-Cursor Debate / 3. The Holocaust: The Comparative Debate / 4. Debating Collective Guilt / 5. Unresolved Allegations And The Culture Of Impunity / 6. Appealling To The Past: The Debate Over History / Afterword / Bibliography / Endnotes /Index