mutindi or destitute (pl. abatindi), 7, 10, 16, 17, 35, 139–40
UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda), 95
UNAR (Union nationale rwandaise or National Rwandan Union), 67–69
nderworld of conduct and ritual, in gacaca court, 161–62
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 97–99, 101
UNHRFOR (United Nations Human Rights Mission for Rwanda), 32
Union démocratique du peuple rwandais (UDPR or Democratic Union of the Rwandan People), 210n7
Union nationale rwandaise (UNAR or National Rwandan Union), 67–69
United Nations, 91, 101–2, 103, 136, 194
United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda (UNAMIR), 95
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 97–99, 101
United Nations Human Rights Mission for Rwanda (UNHRFOR), 32
nity among ethnic groups: as historically false, 54, 60–61, 184; national unity and, 13, 22, 184;
perception of, 13, 22, 50, 54, 58–61, 112; in precolonial period, 22–23, 60–61; as state policy, 13, 22,
71, 112
Uvin, Peter, 209n1
Vail, Leroy, 132
Valentina (pseud.), 202–3
Van der Meeren, Rachel, 89
Vansina, Jan, 54–57, 209n3, 210n6
assalage system (ubuhake), 55, 62, 206
Verwimp, Philip, 136
Vianney (pseud.), 148, 176–79, 182, 201
illage or umudugudu (pl. imidugudu), 30, 35, 121, 123, 206, 208n1
iolence as continuum: overview of, 23, 24, 76–79, 85, 105–6; agency and, 74, 78, 92; culture of
violence and, 85, 88, 90, 92–94; discussion of violence as silenced by RPF and, 16, 19–20; emergency
period (1994–2000) and, 95–98; fear and insecurity in context of, 18, 39, 85, 92–94, 103–4; human
rights violations and, 93, 97, 104, 194; Hutu Power extremists and, 91–97, 99–100, 102–3, 106, 114;
Impuzamugambi and, 80, 93, 206, 210n3; Interahamwe and, 31–32, 80, 93, 97–98, 100, 102, 115, 206,
210n3; marginalization of Tutsi and, 76, 78; media in context of state control of public information
and, 88, 90–92, 112–13; power relations and, 78, 90, 192–93; public speech boundaries in context of,
185; return to war probability in Rwanda and, 12, 25–26, 189; RPF as silencing discussion of violence
and, 16, 19, 104, 105–6; social ties in Rwanda and, 80, 97; structural violence and, 103–4. See also
civilian killings; civil war (1990–94); denunciations; 1994 genocide; physical violence; Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF);sexual violence (rape); structural violence
Waldorf, Lars, 30, 211n5
Weber, Max, 8, 188
Wedeen, Lisa, 8
western Rwanda, 32, 33, 34, 88, 134, 144, 207n3. See also specific towns
West province, 32
White, Landeg, 132
White Fathers (Pères Blancs or missionaries), 50, 56, 63, 74
withdrawn muteness, 9, 146, 155–58 witnesses, in gacaca court, 145, 162, 167, 170–75, 212n4
women: civil rights and, 12, 125; coproduction of knowledge with, 45; division of labor and, 138; ethnic
identity and, 72; in gacaca court, 170–75; as head of households and poverty, 137; Hutu women in
gacaca court and, 172–73, 174; local women-focused organizations and, 44, 125; marginalization of
Hutu, 129–30; national mourning week commemorations and, 116–17; remarriage in context of
privileges for, 125, 128; research and methods in context of, 35, 38; sexual violence against, 37–38,
45, 76–77, 81–82, 166, 173–74; statistics on deaths during 1994 genocide and, 81; truth telling and,
112, 147, 168; Tutsi women as witnesses in gacaca court and, 170–75; violence against, 37–38, 45,
76–77, 81; as witnesses in gacaca court, 170–75
works in the general interest (travaux d’intérêt général or TIG), 156–58
Young, Iris Marion, 110
aïre (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, or DRC): assistance during civil war in, 90;
Banyamulenge in, 99–100, 205; Banyarwanda in, 99–100, 205; ethnicity versus class in, 99–100; old-
caseload returnees from, 104–5; politics in, 99–101; refugee camps in or near, 30–31, 89, 95–96, 98–
103; repatriation of Hutu refugees in, 99; RPF activities in or near, 83, 99–101, 103; Tutsi and Hutu
relations in refugee camps and, 99–100
Zi†zek, Slavoj, 161–62
one turquoise (Opération Turquoise), 95, 96
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