All 3 Uses of
antagonism
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Strength in What Remains
- In 1988, during Deo's senior year in high school, Bishop Bududira had written a bold public letter, urging the government to abandon its "deliberate refusal to talk about ethnic antagonism.†
Chpt 1.7antagonism = hostility or opposition
- Ethnic antagonism, the bishop warned, had become "extremely acute."†
Chpt 1.7 *
- By the time the Europeans arrived, Rwandans were not only "conscious of a great divide between Tutsi and Hutu," but the "antagonism between these two social categories had already broken into the open."†
Chpt Hist
Definition:
hostility, opposition, or tension between opposing forces or ideas