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Krivushin I.V. The preparation of the Rwandan genocide of 1994: organizational centers and instruments

Abstract: the article reviews the history of the creation and operation of training centers for Rwandan genocide in 1994: “Akazu”, AMASASU, Coalition for the protection of the Republic (CDR), as well as legal and illegal organizations with which it was implemented (paramilitary police of the NRDDR and CDR parties, Interahamwe and impuzamugambi, “death squads”, the Civil Self-Defense). The article identifies their origins, social composition, structure, goals, ideology, form of spheres of influence and activity. The analysis shows that the genocide of Tutsis was not due to spontaneous outbursts of Hutu anger because of the assassination of the President Habyarimana J., but was the result of a focused training. It was carried out at different levels, involving extremist circles associated with the regime and the tip of the Rwandan army. The author concludes that in Rwanda by the spring of 1994 there was a structure to the mass mobilization of the Hutu to carry out the genocide of Tutsis. This system consisted of both legal and illegal or informal elements and included senior centers, trained executants and well-established mechanisms for the transfer of orders from the top down.

Keywords:

history, Rwanda, genocide, 1994, “Akazu”, AMASASU, Coalition defense of the republic, the Interahamwe, impuzamugambi, “death squads”.

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