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The Rwandan genocide lasted for approximately three months and can be thought of as an explosion of mass violence across the Hutu population. The number—800,000 to 1,000,000 men, women, and children killed in approximately 100 days—is so staggering as to become almost abstract. To understand the Rwandan genocide, one must move beyond the numbers and into the chronology of the horror, a day-by-day, hour-by-hour descent into a hell meticulously planned and executed with a brutal efficiency that shocked the world. This was not a spontaneous outburst of “ancient tribal hatred”; it was a modern, bureaucratically administered extermination campaign, and its…