The Rwandan genocide is best considered within the logic of colonialism, which created the native impulse to eliminate the settler, as such, this event where hundreds of thousands of hutu, who had never before killed were now suddenly taking part in the slaughter, reflected an attempt to affirm the native's humanity rather than the brutal extinction of life.
The Rwandan genocide is rooted in the activities of the roman catholic church, which not only contributed to the possibility of the genocide, but created the political constellation that led to the genocide, and whose church leaders were actively involved in it.
The Rwandan genocide is a horror whose scale was in fact fully known by the Clinton administration but largely ignored because of recent humiliating failures in Somalia and the event's peripheral status to US interests which made Clinton hesitant to intervene.