The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research shares this public lecture by Jennie Burnet (Associate Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology and Associate Director of the Global Studies Institute, Georgia State University), presented at the University of Southern California on March 1, 2018.
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In 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans died in a genocide that nearly wiped out Rwandan Tutsi. During the genocide, the civilian population was mobilized to search for people in hiding, to denounce neighbors who were protecting people in their homes or providing assistance to people hiding elsewhere, to kill their neighbors in their homes, and to kill people at roadblocks or in the churches, schools, and government offices where they sought refuge. Amidst this atrocious violence, some courageous people chose to do good: they risked their lives to hide people in their homes, to smuggle people to safety, or to fight against the militias, soldiers, and civilians who came to kill the Tutsi kin, friends, neighbors, and strangers they harbored. In this lecture, Professor Burnet discusses several years of ethnographic research and over 200 interviews with Rwandans in ten communities conducted between 2011 and 2014 on rescuer behavior, motivations, and trajectories through the grey zone of genocide in Rwanda.
