Interahamwe Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Interahamwe, meaning "Those Who Stand Together" in Kinyarwarda, was the largest of the militias formed by the Hutu ethnic majority of Rwanda and was responsible for many of the deaths in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.Following the liberation of Rwandan capital Kigali by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), many members of the Interahamwe fled to neibouring countries, most notably to what at the time was Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo. While not officially disbanded, members still take part in border raids, such as those that led to the Civil War in the Congo and the Genocidal Massacre in August 2004 of 150 Tutsi refugees in a United Nations refugee camp in Burundi.