12. The Genocide in Rwanda of 1994

History

The genocide from Rwanda started in April 1994 as a culmination of the ethnic tensions between Tutsi and Hutu people, triggered by the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. The two forces fought for 100 days, until mid-July, in a horrifying mass murder of an estimated 800.000 dead people.

Astrological analysis

The relevant aspects are:

- in April 1994, transit Pluto (28 Scorpio) in square with Rwanda natal Uranus (28 Leo);

- before the genocide started, transit Pluto (23-27 Scorpio) in opposition with natal Mars (24 Taurus).

MY EVALUATION: 7,85

Conclusion. The book covers a rare subject on the current astrological field, which is the astrological analysis of important historical events (in this case war, conflicts). Even the subject is very interesting, one can't find easily books or articles about it, so, I think Astrology and the Causes of War fills a gap in the current astrological writings.

The content of the book is comprehensive on each of the 12 conflicts analyzed. Each chapter has a first part with historical information and a second part with the astrological analysis. The historical information is detailed, well documented and succeeds to give the reader a clear picture on the events. In the second part of each chapter, the author presents almost all the astrological aspects which are possible in astrology. He uses 45, 135, 150 aspects, also midpoints and extensively the asteroid Chiron, on solar and lunar eclipses, solar and lunar returns, ingresses, composite charts etc. One can find a long analysis, all kind of techniques and planetary combinations, but the main disadvantage of this approach is that will be very hard for the reader to understand which are the important, relevant astrological positions for the event. I think this is a big problem for this otherwise interesting book. The problem is that in this way we will enter in a very dangerous game where will be impossible not to find suitable aspects for each event. For example, we will find a 45 aspect, a Chiron aspect, an ingress aspect or something... It is not good and I will give an example of what resulted from this approach:

"page 193 - There was one other important clue in the chart for Tel - Aviv, hinting at the possibility of war. The North Node -45 -Ascendant suggested that Israel was likely to experience difficulties in its relationships; it should therefore have been more attentive to what its Arab neighbours were doing at the point when the eclipse was being triggered by Chiron."     

NN - 45 - Ascendant, eclipse triggered by Chiron?! Come on, you are kidding!

Now, above this problem, the book is well documented and if you know astrology you can select the relevant aspects and read only what you consider important, which will be a much better experience. My evaluation is 7,85.