Akazu

The Akazu (Kinyarwanda: [ɑ.kɑ.zu], little house) was an informal organization of Hutu extremists whose members contributed strongly to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A circle of relatives and close friends of Rwanda's then-president Juvénal Habyarimana and his influential wife Agathe Habyarimana,[1] they were also called the Zero Network, for their goal of a Rwanda with zero Tutsi.[2][3]

  1. ^ Des Forges, Alison (March 1999). Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda – History → The Army, the Church and the Akazu. New York: Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1-56432-171-1.
  2. ^ Propaganda of the Rwanda genocide: Glossary, archived from the original on 7 January 2015
  3. ^ 15 Years after the Rwandan Genocide: Hutu Power and its Friends, Jungle World, 2 April 2009/