Routledge Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives - Routledge

This Routledge volume examines genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda through fresh analytical lenses, exploring dimensions largely absent from existing scholarship. While previous accounts have chronicled how the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the Rwandan genocide of 1994 unfolded-examining the ideologies, motives and victims involved-this book advances understanding by investigating the impact of regional politics and the role of social institutions in perpetrating genocide. The work fills critical gaps in genocide studies by moving beyond the conventional narrative of events to analyse the structural and political contexts that enabled mass atrocity. Scholars, students and readers seeking deeper comprehension of these catastrophic historical events will find rigorous analysis grounded in primary research and contemporary perspectives on how societies fracture and institutions become instruments of violence.