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“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. […] The mass of participants in the practice massacres of the early 1990s may have taken little pleasure in obediently murdering their neighbors. Still, few refused, and assertive resistance was extremely rare. Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.”
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Santiago Monroy
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Since 1959, the diaspora of exiled Rwandan Tutsis and their children had grown to include about a million people; it was the largest and oldest unresolved African refugee problem.
Citing the country’s chronic overpopulation, exiles were forbidden to come back to Rwanda and Habyarimana outlawed contact with the refugees.
— Jan 13, 2026 06:46PM
Citing the country’s chronic overpopulation, exiles were forbidden to come back to Rwanda and Habyarimana outlawed contact with the refugees.
Santiago Monroy
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Despite the Hutu monopoly on power, the Hamitic myth remained the basis of the state ideology. So a deep almost mythical sense of inferiority persisted among Rwanda’s new Hutu elite.
— Jan 13, 2026 06:27PM
Santiago Monroy
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In Genesis, the older brother, Cain, was a cultivator, and Abel, the younger, was a herdsman. They made their offerings to God-Cain from his crops, Abel from his herds. Abel’s portion won God’s regard; Cain’s did not. So Cain killed Abel.
Hutus were cultivators and Tutsis were herdsmen. This was the original inequality: cattle are more valuable than produce.
— Jan 13, 2026 06:09PM
Hutus were cultivators and Tutsis were herdsmen. This was the original inequality: cattle are more valuable than produce.
Santiago Monroy
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In 1860, when Mwami Kigeri Rwabugiri, a Tutsi, ascended to the throne of Rwanda, Tutsis were favored for top political and military offices, and enjoyed greater financial power as well. The regime was essentially feudal: Tutsis were aristocrats; Hutus were vassals.
— Jan 13, 2026 06:06PM
