The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province

Verpoorten, Marijke

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“…the general trend is one of clustering with a rather high value for 9 With respect to Gikongoro, Verpoorten (2005) provides evidence on the variation of the genocide's death toll within the province and demonstrates that di¤erences in the proportion of Tutsi played a role as well as di¤erences in the attitude of local authorities (either cooperating with the genocidal regime or opposing it).…”

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“…The genocide mainly targeted Tutsi and an estimated 75% of the entire Tutsi population was killed in 1994 (Verpoorten (2005)). A suitable spatial determinant for the intensity of genocide is the distance to Nyanza, which is a sector located in the northwestern corner of Butare.…”

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“…This estimate is likely to be at the lower end, because of the alleged under-reporting of Tutsi in the 1991 census. Verpoorten (2005) provides evidence for this allegation, indicating that there was up to 40% under-reporting of Tutsi, either by the Habyarimana regime (in order to keep the school and public employment quotas of Tutsi low), either by Tutsi themselves (in order to avoid discrimination). She demonstrates that, when repeating the same exercise as above with a larger Tutsi population in 1991, the estimated death toll of the genocide increases to a range of 600,000 to 800,000 Tutsi killed, depending on the exact extent of under-reporting.…”

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“…Many have tried to understand its causes and consequences from a political, social, anthropological, cultural or economic viewpoint (e.g. André and Platteau (1998), Baines (2003), Des Forges (1999), de Walque and Verwimp (2009), Newbury (1998), Mamdani (2001), Straus (2004), Verpoorten andBerlage (2007), Verwimp (2005)). In addition, several e¤orts have been made to estimate the genocide's death toll amongst Tutsi (e.g.…”

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“…In addition, several e¤orts have been made to estimate the genocide's death toll amongst Tutsi (e.g. Prunier (1998), Verpoorten (2005)). Two recent scholarly publications give a more central role to the other forms of violence, including reprisal killings committed by the RPF and the spillover of violence to eastern Congo (Davenport and Stam (2009), Reyntjens (2009)).…”

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Detecting Hidden Violence: The Spatial Distribution of Excess Mortality in Rwanda

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2010

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During the nineties, Rwanda experienced several forms of internal violence, including civil war, genocide, reprisal killings and (counter-)insurgency. In addition, the armed con ‡ict triggered of an unprecedented refugee crisis in the Great Lakes region. In order to assess the relative impact of the di¤erent forms of violence and the refugee crisis, this article derives a detailed spatial pattern of wartime excess mortality from pre-and post-con ‡ict population census data. In line with previous evidence on the intensity of genocide, civil war and reprisal killings in Rwanda, we …nd signi…cant high-high excess mortality clusters in the southern province of Butare, in and around Kigali City, and in the eastern province Kibungo. Furthermore, we present the …rst quantitative evidence to date of high excess mortality in Gisenyi, the northwestern province which was the location of (counter-)insurgency and served as a corridor for more than a million refugees.A regression analysis indicates that both of these events contributed to a high death toll in Gisenyi.

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Violent Conflict and Sexual Behavior in Rwanda

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2014

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Early and premarital sexual intercourse can be linked to a host of problems in a sub-Saharan African context including unwanted pregnancies and exposure to sexually transmitted infections. This study explores the relationship between violent conflict and premarital first sexual intercourse in Rwanda, a country that experienced violent conflicts leading up to the genocide in 1994, alongside high HIV prevalence. The study makes use of unique data on violent conflict at the regional level that are linked to the sexual histories of individual women across time and place. The study employs indirect and direct conflict indicators to estimate the risk of premarital first sexual intercourse. The method used was piece-wise constant hazard models, which reveal an increased risk of premarital first sexual intercourse during the conflict years of 1993 and 1994. Both the indirect and the direct conflict indicators provided strong evidence of a conflict effect in Rwanda.

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Obtaining Evidence for the International Criminal Court Using Data and Quantitative Analysis

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The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

Detecting Hidden Violence: The Spatial Distribution of Excess Mortality in Rwanda

Detecting Hidden Violence: The Spatial Distribution of Excess Mortality in Rwanda

Violent Conflict and Sexual Behavior in Rwanda

Obtaining Evidence for the International Criminal Court Using Data and Quantitative Analysis

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