Ethics of Evil? Of Genocide in Rwanda and Incursion of Religious Language

Among the factors that make a genocide or genocide denial both possible and banal, scholars often cite the dehumanization of the victim perceived as an insect or harmful animal. Beyond notions of banality and spontaneity, it is essential that we reflect on mass crime using moral or religious categories. Once we think of it in this way, genocide proceeds from a logic that defines good and evil and thus allows killing without committing a crime. Preventing genocide and fighting against denial will also consist of deconstructing the rationalities that welcomed and justified the genocide and allow denial today.