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"Priests, Doctors, and Teachers Turn Genocidal"

Book excerpt

By: Mahmood Mamdani

Date: 2003

Source: "Priests, Doctors, and Teachers Turn Genocidal" is an excerpt published in Sources of the Western Tradition, edited by Marvin Perry, et. al., and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2003. Originally published in When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, 2001.

About the Author: Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York, was born in Uganda. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. and an M.A.L.D. from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law, and a Ph.D....