Understand the event

The mobilization of the Hutu population was accompanied by fierce propaganda against the "enemies" of the Habyarimana regime. Organized, this propaganda is relayed by all existing media: newspapers, radio, television, political meetings... While no religious, linguistic or territorial rivalry divides Rwandan society, the reference to an imaginary of defensive war since independence and the constant use of slanderous terminology to describe the Tutsi helps galvanize crowds.
The spread and repetition of a denigrating phraseology, rejecting the Tutsi as pests that must be disposed of, is an essential element in the process of animalization and killing victims, who are cruelly slaughtered like cattle.
As early as the 1960s, the introduction of the term Inyenzi meaning roach or cockroach to designate the Tutsi exiles trying to penetrate the Rwandan territory, shapes the imagination and the state of mind of Rwandan society. With the independence of Rwanda, Rwandan society was built on the idea that a nation in danger should remain on the watch for a peril that could come from both outside and inside.
This racist ideology, exalted by propagandists, resulted in a genocidal project and a planning of massacres where different strata of the Rwandan state intervene. This plan has not been recorded in any official file, but it is clear from the events confirmed by a number of archived documents.