Impuzamugambi

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The Impuzamugambi even Impuzamugambi ( Kinyarwanda , "who have the same goal" or "fighting for a goal"), was a Founded in 1992, armed militia of Hutu in Rwanda , in addition to the earlier incurred and numerically larger Interahamwe instrumental in the genocide participated in the Tutsi in 1994. In contrast to the Interahamwe, whose management staff were recruited from the ruling Hutu movement MRND despite their formal independence , the Impuzamugambi was hardly organized. It had no management structure of its own, but was directly subordinate to the Coalition pour la Defense de la République (CDR), and was mainly composed of its young members. The CDR was another party of the Hutu majority, allied with the MRND, which, however, was much more pro-Hutu and anti-Tutsi in its positions.

Like the Interahamwe, the Impuzamugambi was trained and equipped by the Rwandan Army and the life guards of the Rwandan President and leader of the MRND Juvénal Habyarimana . With the beginning of the genocide in April 1994, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi largely mixed up in their structures and activities, even if a distinction was partly still possible on the basis of their clothing. However, some génocidaires took part in the Tutsi killings for both militias . After the end of the genocide, members of the Impuzamugambi and Interahamwe, as well as a large part of the Hutu population, fled from Rwanda to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

From the leadership of the CDR, Hassan Ngeze and Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza were particularly responsible for the leadership of the Impuzamugambi. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Court of Justice for Rwanda in 2003 for planning and carrying out genocide , incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity . However, Barayagwiza’s sentence has been reduced to 35 years imprisonment for procedural misconduct, of which he will spend at least 27 years in prison after crediting previous prison terms.

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