The Interahamwe, led by Robert Kajuga, were the main perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, during which an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutus were killed from April to July 1994, and the term "Interahamwe" was widened to mean any civilian militias or bands killing Tutsi. [1][2]

…militia groups known as the Interahamwe (“Those Who Attack Together”) and Impuzamugambi (“Those Who Have the Same Goal”) played a central role. Radio broadcasts further fueled the genocide by encouraging Hutu civilians to kill their Tutsi neighbors, who were referred to as “cockroaches” who needed to be exterminated.

2018年3月25日 · Interahamwe, translated from Kinyarwanda to English as “those who work/ fight together,” is an African paramilitary and terrorist group currently based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

1999年3月2日 · The abduction of foreign tourists in the Bwindi National Park in Uganda is being blamed on Rwandan rebels known as the Interahamwe. The Interahamwe are viewed by the …

2010年3月1日 · The term originally referred to the youth movement of the MRND, created after 1973 and tasked with supervising Rwandan youth in the development effort demanded by Juvénal Habyarimana, who introduced the collective interest work known as umuganda (the term Interahamwe means ‘those who work together’).

The Interhamwe (also known as the Interahamwe) militia played a major role in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Early in 1992, ". . . political organizations affiliated with President Habyarimana formed two militias the Interahamwe ("Those Who Attack Together") and the Impuzamugambi ("Those Who Have the Same Goal").

The militia attached to Habyarimana’s party, the Interahamwe, was the strongest, in part because its members received military training and firearms from soldiers.

The Interahamwe (pronounced Een-tair-ah-hahm-way, with the 't' pronounced as an 'h') was the main mob army that started the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. In this mass murder, about one million Hutu and Tutsi people were killed.

The Interahamwe was officially formed as a youth militia by the Hutu-led government to counter perceived threats from Tutsis during the Rwandan Civil War. The group was notorious for its brutal methods, including mass killings, sexual violence, and widespread use of machetes to execute victims.

Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor Edith Umugiraneza describes her first contact with the Interahamwe militia, which was threatening violence against Tutsis.