The Complexity of Evil

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S. secret ser vice ECCC Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia KGB Komitet gossudarstwennoi besopasnosti (Committee for State Security), Rus sian secret ser vice MRND Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développement (Republican, National Movement for Democracy and Development), Rwandan party of President Habyarimana RPF Rwandan Patriotic Front, Tutsi rebel army RTLM Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines ( Free Radio-Television of the One Thousand Hills), hard-liner Rwandan media broadcaster S-21 Santebal-21, meaning Security Center 21 SAT Situational Action Theory UN United NationsThe Complexity of EvilThe Controversial Role of Identity and Ethnicity Given the fundamental impact of identity on conflict framing, the role of ethnicity has elicited controversial discussions in the genocide studies lit er ature. At the macro level, ethnicity plays a key role in the identification of many victim groups in genocide and can impact the outbreak of genocide, and this ethnic difference plays a major part as the foundation of many genocidal ideologies (see section 4.3 for more details). However, ethnicity's role at Rouge genocide in Cambodia from 1975(Hinton 2005, and the Armenian genocide (Mann 2005). 8 On top of these individual cases, other disciplinary approaches are important. There exists significant social-psychological and psychological lit er a ture that is explic itly or implicitly relevant for questions regarding motivations for and pathways into genocide participation (e.g.