This paper analyzes a
media account of the
crisis in Rwanda published within one year of its occurrence, "Traumatized
Relief Workers Struggle with Horrors of Rwanda Crisis," by Vivienne Walt, and compares it to the novel "When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the
Genocide in Rwanda," by Mahmood Mamdani. The book is a detailed historic account of the Rwanda crisis and what led up to it, while the article is a very personal account of what some relief workers found when they first arrived on the scene after the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda.