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728: 197: 567:, an ethnic Hutu supported by more radical northern Rwandans, overthrew Kayibanda and had him and his wife apparently killed under house arrest. Many of his supporters were from his district in the north, descendants of Hutu kingdoms that had been semi-autonomous before the colonial period. The resulting administration proved better for Tutsis, as government-sponsored violence was more sporadic than under Kayibanda. 664:
The Commandments declared that any form of relationship between Hutus and Tutsi women was forbidden; and that any Hutu who "marries a Tutsi woman", "befriends a Tutsi woman", or "employs a Tutsi woman as a secretary or a concubine" was a traitor to the Hutu people. It denounced Tutsis as dishonest in
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The society created conceptions of social status which were based on the groups' traditional pursuits: the Twa, working most directly with the earth (through pottery), were considered impure; the Hutu, still working with the ground but less so than the Twa, were in turn considered less pure than the
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The defeat of the government by the RPF ended the genocide, and the Hutu Power movement was defeated and suppressed. Many Hutu Power spokesmen were arrested after the genocide, charged and put on trial. Ngeze was convicted and sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment. In 2005, Mugesera was deported from
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gave a speech in November, 1992, allegedly stating, "Do not be afraid, know that anyone whose neck you do not cut is the one who will cut your neck...Let them pack their bags, let them get going, so that no one will return here to talk and no one will bring scraps claiming to be flags!" The radio
551:, an ethnic Hutu, used ethnic tensions to preserve his own power. Hutu radicals, working with his group (and later against it), adopted the Hamitic hypothesis, portraying the Tutsi as outsiders, invaders, and oppressors of Rwanda. Some Hutu radicals called for the Tutsi to be "sent back to 629:. The repetition of Hutu Ten Commandments was an attempt to incite and mobilize the population to commit genocide against the Tutsi, who were portrayed as threatening the social and political order achieved since independence, and as envisioned by the 669:"; and declared that any Hutu who did business with a Tutsi was a traitor to the Hutu people. The Commandments declared that "The Hutu should stop having mercy on the Tutsi" and referred to the Tutsis as "common Tutsi enemy". 327: 621:
broadcast radio shows suggesting the end to toleration of the Tutsi, repeating the Hutu Ten Commandments, and building support for the Hutu Power ideology. Two main voices of RTLM were announcers
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against the Tutsi and the members of their families, the moderate Hutu who opposed the killings, and the Twa, who were considered traitors. Hutu Power political parties and movements included the
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in censuses, which reinforced an artificial ethnic division and contributed to tensions between groups. In reality, the Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa possessed little cultural or genetic distinction.
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set up the first democratic elections in Rwanda to avoid more radical politics. As the majority population, the Hutu elected their candidates to most positions in the new government.
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Toward the end of Belgian rule, the government began to favor the Hutu, who were organizing for more influence. More significantly, the Belgian administration feared the rise of
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races of Sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, the colonial administration favored the Tutsi at the expense of Hutu and Twa. In addition, they imposed a system of identity cards and
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were included in the government, but the Twa were included in it significantly less so than the Hutu, who were more numerous. The Tutsi/Hutu divide has been referred to as a
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Ethnicity and sociopolitcal change in Africa and other developing countries: a constructive discourse in state building. Lexington Books, 2008. Pp. 92.
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above-ground Tutsi. When Germany, and later Belgium, colonized the kingdom, they interpreted the local division of races or ethnicity through the
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called for the supremacy of Hutus in Rwanda, calling for exclusive Hutu leadership over Rwanda's public institutions and public life, complete
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of Hutus from Tutsis, and complete exclusion of Tutsis from public institutions and public life. Hutu Power ideology reviled Tutsis as
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paramilitary militia. The belief in the theory that Hutu people are superior is most common in
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the education system must be composed of a Hutu majority (reflecting the population); and
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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and migrating southwards, and having brought "civilization" to the
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In Rwanda, ex-Quebecker’s genocide trial stokes ethnic tensions
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The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
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The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
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The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
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Mugesera v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
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With economic conditions difficult, and threatened by the
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National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
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CTV.ca | "Top court upholds Mugesera deportation order"
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to Rwanda to stand trial for his role in the killings.
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Jones, Bruce (2000). "The Arusha Peace Process", in
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the Rwandan armed forces should be exclusively Hutu.
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"Hate Radio in Rwanda", in 699:, and mobs to carry out the mass killings of the 665:business whose "only aim is the supremacy of his 511: 1122: 26:ideology that asserts the ethnic superiority of 659: 640:programs frequently referred to the Tutsi as 492: 986: 672: 582:Hutu Power acquired a variety of spokesmen. 30:, often in the context of being superior to 1079: 964: 499: 485: 177:origin, having originated from modern-day 1044: 681:) between the Rwandan government and the 618:Radio TĂ©lĂ©vision Libre des Mille Collines 54:Coalition for the Defence of the Republic 62:paramilitary militia, and the governing 983:, World Statesmen, accessed 15 Sep 2010 936:Genocide in Rwanda: A Collective Memory 1123: 1019:Supreme Court of Canada – Decisions – 947: 563:In 1973, general and defense minister 1117:and transcripts of broadcasts by RTLM 606:Hutu and Tutsi should not intermarry; 999: 558: 677:During the attempted negotiations ( 134:was traditionally ruled by a Tutsi 13: 893: 14: 1177: 1104: 602:", which included the following: 726: 577: 205:Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre 195: 1136:Nationalist movements in Africa 1073: 1057: 1033: 840:1993 ethnic violence in Burundi 333:International Criminal Tribunal 173:wrote of the Tutsi as being of 1012: 970: 941: 912: 887: 512:Shift in Belgian colonial rule 242:Origins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa 117:, and idealized Hutu culture. 16:Supremacist ideology in Rwanda 1: 1089:. 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Index

ethnic supremacist
Hutu
Tutsi
Twa
Rwandan genocide
Akazu
Parmehutu
Coalition for the Defence of the Republic
Impuzamugambi
National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
Interahamwe
Rwanda
Burundi
Nazism
Western world
Hassan Ngeze
Hutu Ten Commandments
segregation
outsiders
Tutsi-dominated monarchy
Rwandan kingdom
mwami
Twa
caste system
pastoralists
hunter-gatherer
potter
Hamitic hypothesis
John Hanning Speke
Hamitic

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