Today’s episode explores the “Civilian Self-Protection” program or “Auto-defense civile” as it was referred to, which was an operation aimed at selecting reliable and capable Hutu youth for military training. Once this training was completed, they’d be supplied with weapons to return to their communities and train other youth in these “anti-enemy killings”. The enemy of Rwanda had previously been defined in September 1992 by Colonel Deogratias Nsabimana the former Commander in Chief of the Rwandan Armed Forces as “a Tutsi inside the country or abroad who never accepted the 1959 revolution” and “anyone who is considered a Tutsi ally or accomplice.”
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