Scott Straus, a Political Science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has recently published Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide and is about to release a new book, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power and War in Rwanda. In this interview, he provides a brief overview of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, unravels the complicated notions behind the two ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis, and explains the implications that these categories had in terms of the genocide. Mr. Straus also tackles the difficult notions behind the intertwined relationships of perpetrators, rescuers and bystanders during the genocide in Rwanda.

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