Akazu

Rwandan Genocide
Background History of Rwanda Origins of Tutsi and Hutu Kingdom of Rwanda Rwandan Revolution Rwandan Civil War Hutu Power Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira
Events Initial events Chronology Gikondo massacre Nyarubuye massacre
Parties responsible People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal Genocidaires Akazu Impuzamugambi militia Interahamwe militia Kangura RTLM radio
Response Rwandan Patriotic Front International community United Nations Mission Opération "Turquoise"
Effects Great Lakes refugee crisis Gacaca court First Congo War Second Congo War
Resources Bibliography Filmography

The Akazu (Kinyarwanda: [ɑkɑzu], little house) was an informal organization of Hutu extremists whose members contributed strongly to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. A circle of relatives and close friends of Rwanda's then-president Juvénal Habyarimana and his influential wife Agathe Habyarimana, they were also called "zero networks", for their goal of a Rwanda with zero Tutsi.^[1]^[2]

Background

The Akazu were relatives of Habyarimana's and others he knew from his Northern Rwanda 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.^[3]

External links

www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/rwanda/resources

References

↑ Glossary of the Rwandan Genocide
↑ 15 Years after the Rwandan Genocide: Hutu Power and its Friends, Jungle World /
↑ 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.

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