381. The Crime of Genocide in Internatioanal Law and Underlying Social Structures of the Crime: Rwanda Case
- Author:
- Ebru Çoban
- Publication Date:
- 03-2008
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Institution:
- Uluslararasi Iliskiler
- Abstract:
- Genocide is a crime which is defined under internatioanal law in the twentieth century and could not come about without the ideological, bureaucratic power of a modern state with is sanctions and modern discources on identities and modern classifications. With a non-modern Picture but with modern techniques of governing Rwanda was a place that genocidal killings occured and is a place of a breaking case for modern theories. Rwanda has modern state characteristics in terms of monopoly of use of violence, giving orders and providing obidience of its people, surveillance, classification and registration of its people, and keeping discourses. Morever, Rwandan culture that gives great importance to obidence and Rwandan geography that is so suitable to surveillance become additional factors. In that sense, Rwandan government could influence to daily life of the people even to the smallest details of anyone. All factors provided a suitable bas efor the crime of genocide.
- Topic:
- Genocide, Government, and International Law
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Rwanda