Akazu
| Rwandan Genocide |
|---|
| Background |
| History of Rwanda Origins of Tutsi and Hutu Kingdom of Rwanda Rwandan Civil War Hutu Power Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira |
| Events |
| Initial events and chronology Gikondo massacre Nyarubuye massacre |
| Responsible parties |
| People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal Genocidaires Hutu Power Media |
| Response |
| Resistance Rwandan Patriotic Front International Community |
| Effects |
| Great Lakes refugee crisis Gacaca court 1st Congo War and 2nd Congo War |
| Resources |
| Bibliography Filmography |
The Akazu (Rwanda-Rundi: little house) was an informal organization of Hutu extremists, a circle of relatives and close friends of then Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and his influential wife Agathe Habyarimana.[citation needed] Its members contributed strongly to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
[edit] Background
The Akazu were relatives of Habyarimana's and others he knew from his district; they held important appointed positions of authority in the Hutu regime. The Akazu did not wish to share government with the Tutsis (particularly the expatriate rebels resident in Uganda) or moderate Hutu. They contributed to the development of Hutu Power ideology and fanned resentment against the Tutsi during the 1990s. Some scholars believe their genocidal ideology and massacres were an effort to hold on to the political power they had gathered since Habyarimana came to power in a military coup against the elected government.[1]
Prevent Genocide International provides a list of resources on the nexus between the Akazu (or Hutu Power) extremist ideology and the Rwandan Genocide.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ De Figueiredo & Weingast. (1999). "The rationality of fear: Political opportunism and ethnic conflict", in (eds.) Walter & Snyder, Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 261.
- ^ Resources, Prevent Genocide, http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/rwanda/resources.
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