The
Coalition for the Defence of the Republic ("Coalition pour la Défense de la République" in French) was a
RwandanThe Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Home to approaching 10 million people, Rwanda supports the densest population in continental Africa, most of whom...
pro-
genocideThe Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April through mid-July, at least 500,000...
HutuThe Hutu are a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi.-Population statistics:Despite the 1972 Burundi Genocide where an estimated 100,000...
political party founded by
Juvénal HabyarimanaJuvénal Habyarimana was President of the Republic of Rwanda from 1973 until 1994. During his 20-year dictatorship he favored his own ethnic group, the Hutus, and supported the Hutu majority in neighboring Burundi against the Tutsi government...
in 1991. The Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (CDR) was allied with the ruling
Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développementNational Republican Movement for Democracy and Development is a now-defunct political party in Rwanda. It was the ruling party of Rwanda from 1975 to 1994 under President Juvénal Habyarimana. It was dominated by Hutus...
party. The CDR's slogan was "Mube maso" ("Watch out!"), which meant that Hutus should beware or the Tutsis would rule them as they had in the past.
The
Coalition for the Defence of the Republic ("Coalition pour la Défense de la République" in French) was a
RwandanThe Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Home to approaching 10 million people, Rwanda supports the densest population in continental Africa, most of whom...
pro-
genocideThe Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus under the Hutu Power ideology. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April through mid-July, at least 500,000...
HutuThe Hutu are a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi.-Population statistics:Despite the 1972 Burundi Genocide where an estimated 100,000...
political party founded by
Juvénal HabyarimanaJuvénal Habyarimana was President of the Republic of Rwanda from 1973 until 1994. During his 20-year dictatorship he favored his own ethnic group, the Hutus, and supported the Hutu majority in neighboring Burundi against the Tutsi government...
in 1991. The Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (CDR) was allied with the ruling
Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développementNational Republican Movement for Democracy and Development is a now-defunct political party in Rwanda. It was the ruling party of Rwanda from 1975 to 1994 under President Juvénal Habyarimana. It was dominated by Hutus...
party. The CDR's slogan was "Mube maso" ("Watch out!"), which meant that Hutus should beware or the Tutsis would rule them as they had in the past. Unlike the MRNDD, the CDR did not agree to the
Arusha AccordsThe Arusha Accords were a set of five accords signed in Arusha, Tanzania on August 4, 1993, by the government of Rwanda and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front , under mediation, to end a three-year long Rwandan Civil War...
and Statement of Ethics. It was therefore shut out of the Broad-Based Transitional Government. The party was led by Jean Shyirambere Barahinyura, Jean-Bosco Barayawiza, and Martin Bucyana. Several important members of the CDR, including Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza and
Ferdinand NahimanaFerdinand Nahimana is a Rwandan former historian who was convicted of participating in the Rwandan Genocide.Nahimana was co-founder of the radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines but not the director, which during the genocide broadcast information and propaganda that helped...
, have been convicted by the
International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaThe International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , or the Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda , is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of the...
for
genocideGenocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, and other crimes against humanity
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/ij/ictr/1.htm. The CDR created a militia known as the
ImpuzamugambiThe Impuzamugambi , which means "Those who have the same goal" or "Those who have a single goal" in the Kinyarwanda language, was a Hutu militia in Rwanda formed in 1992...
("Those who have the same goal") which took part in the killings
http://www.grandslacs.net/doc/2671.pdf.