Perhaps only the dimension of women’s complicity is truly unique to Rwanda. Many of the other features have been evident in other genocides of the modern and pre-modern world: the Jewish and Armenian cases, for example, have also been powerfully “gendered” from the viewpoint of both the tormented and the tormentors.2 But in its powerful representation of all these characteristics, the Rwandan genocide cries out for a sustained analysis and an attempt, however preliminary, at synthesis.