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Extremist ethnic Hutus called Interahamwe blamed for Rwanda's
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Thousands of foreign fighters, including extremist ethnic Hutus called Interahamwe blamed for Rwanda's 1994 genocide, have contributed to continued bloodletting in the lawless east since
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Meanwhile 635 Hutu returnees, made of civilians, members of the ex-FAR, and the Hutu militiamen "Interahamwe" - those who attack together - ended a one-month re-education training in Rwerere,
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The court established that between April and June 1994 the mother and son, with assistance of the extremist Hutu militia known as the Interahamwe, went to Butare and abducted hundreds of ethnic Tutsis.
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The court established that between April and June 1994 the mother and son, with assistance of the extremist Hutu militia known as the Interahamwe, went to Butare and abducted hundreds of ethnic Tutsis.
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Interahamwe translates as "those who attack together" in Kinyarwanda.
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh: Nyiramasuhuko: The Mother Who Awarded Rape for Murder Sam Sasan Shoamanesh 2011
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The Interahamwe were the extremist Hutu militia and followers of the Hutu Power ideology, whose raison d'être during the genocide was to annihilate their Tutsi countrymen.
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh: Nyiramasuhuko: The Mother Who Awarded Rape for Murder Sam Sasan Shoamanesh 2011
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When Kagame's then rebels routed the Hutu killers, troops and a militia called the Interahamwe, they fled into eastern DRC and some of them have been a part of the powderkeg mix there since, poisoning relations between the central African countries.
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Hutu militias, known as the Interahamwe, who led the 100-day genocide of more than a half-million people in Rwanda 13 years ago.
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While a final accounting of the death toll remains controversial, at minimum, the militias called the Interahamwe systematically slaughtered three-quarters of a million people in a matter of weeks.
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