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Definition of Interahamwe

1. Noun. A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again. "In 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interahamwe

Literary usage of Interahamwe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo by Joanne Csete, Juliane Kippenberg (2002)
"Many persons, both Congolese and foreign, refer to these combatants globally as interahamwe, a practice which wrongly attributes genocidal guilt to all. ..."

2. Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath by Human Rights Watch/Africa, Africa Human Rights Watch (1996)
"When I got there, one interahamwe said to me that he knew the best ... For two days, myself and eight other young women were held and raped by interahamwe, ..."

3. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"For most of the year, the former Rwandan army and the interahamwe militia groups responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda continued to operate freely ..."

4. Tanzania: Violence Against Women Refugees by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2000)
"These latter, they said, included members of the interahamwe militia involved in ... 93 "interahamwe" was the Kinyarwanda (a Rwandan language) name for the ..."

5. Human Rights Watch World Report 1998 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1997)
"Rwanda's government seized on the Banyamulenge uprising as an opportunity to disband the refugee border camps and destroy the ex-FAR and interahamwe. ..."

6. Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing by Dennis Dijkzeul, Caroline Lynch (2006)
"No Mai-Mai and interahamwe were active in these zones and the government and RCD forces had withdrawn from the front lines. ..."

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