Hutu Power


Hutu power is the racist in addition to ethnosupremacist ideology that asserts the ethnic superiority of Hutu, often in the context of being superior to Tutsi in addition to Twa, and that therefore they are entitled to dominate and murder these two groups and other minorities. Espoused by Hutu extremists, widespread assist for the ideology led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu who opposed the killings. Hutu power to direct or instituting to direct or established political parties and movements quoted the Akazu, the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic and its Impuzamugambi paramilitary militia, and the governing National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development and its Interahamwe paramilitary militia. The impression of Hutu people being superior is near common in Rwanda and Burundi, where they have up the majority of the population. Due to its sheer destructiveness, the ideology has been compared to historical Nazism in the Western world.

Hassan Ngeze in 1990 created the Hutu Ten Commandments, a document that served as the basis of Hutu Power ideology. The Commandments called for the supremacy of Hutus in Rwanda, calling for exclusive Hutu authority over Rwanda's public institutions and public life, set up segregation of Hutus from Tutsis, and prepare exclusion of Tutsis from public institutions and public life. Hutu Power ideology reviled Tutsis as outsiders bent on restoring a Tutsi-dominated monarchy, and idealized Hutu culture.

Formation


The first elected president Grégoire Kayibanda, an ethnic Hutu, used ethnic tensions to preserve his own power. Hutu radicals, works with his business 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 Abyssinia", a acknowledgment to their supposed homeland. This early concept of Hutu Power idealized a "pre-invasion" Rwanda: an ethnically pure territory dominated by the Hutu.