Belief in a transnational Tutsi extermination conspiracy was manufactured to justify Hutu massacres

Evidence

Hutu extremists’ propaganda of an ethnic war fuelled by a transnational Tutsi conspi­ racy to exterminate Hutus led to alliances between MRND and CDR whose paramilitary youth wings—the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi—were given the mandate to elim­ inate Tutsis everywhere. Thus it was that within 100 days more than 800,000 Tutsis were massacred in one of the most unspeakable mass tragedies in modern history. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s core research question: solidarity manufactured against a constructed external enemy (the Tutsi ‘threat’), with paramilitary wings given elimination mandates. — connects to: Hutu chauvinism initially pursued status reversal and exclusion rather than extermination — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 56; Hutu extremists manufactured a Tutsi plot to justify preemptive genocide — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 61; A historical Tutsi rebel label evolved into a dehumanizing cockroach epithet for all Tutsis — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 84 (+8 more)
• SHARE: The 100-days/800,000-casualty specific warrants the addition of the Interahamwe framing to someone studying manufactured enemies.

Related

• Hutu extremists manufactured a Tutsi plot to justify preemptive genocide (similarity 0.85)
• Repetitive media branding of Tutsis as disloyal and externally backed made genocide seem logical. (similarity 0.81)
• Hutu Power manufactured a unified Tutsi enemy spanning within and without Rwanda. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Genocide perpetrators justify mass murder by blaming victims for ingroup misfortunes #exemplifies (0.85)
• Repetitive media branding of Tutsis as disloyal and externally backed made genocide seem logical. #expands (0.85) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 81
• Genocide accusations were weaponized as signals to launch genocidal attacks #exemplifies (0.82) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 194
• Colonial ideology and law jointly constructed the Tutsi as nonindigenous civilizers #expands (0.80) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 46
• Conspiracy theorists project their own genocidal history onto imagined victims #corroborates (0.78) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 907
• Believing absurdities enables ordinary decent people to commit atrocities #corroborates (0.75)
• The conspiracy’s oath derived from West African ritual traditions #expands (0.72)