Quote by: Jared Diamond

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.


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Author Bio


  • NameJared Diamond
  • DescriptionAmerican scientist and author
  • BornSeptember 10, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiologist; Physiologist; Geographer; Writer
  • WorksThe Third Chimpanzee; Why Is Sex Fun?; Guns, Germs, And Steel; Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed; The World Until Yesterday
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Pulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction; Tyler Prize For Environmental Achievement