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The Hutus\u2019 Machete<\/p><\/div>\n

A machete is a broad blade used as an agricultural implement similar to an ax. It can be compared to a long-bladed knife. In various tropical and subtropical countries, the machete is frequently used to cut through rainforest undergrowth and for agricultural purposes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Hutus’ Machete<\/h4>\n

The machete, a common domestic farming tool in Rwanda, has come to symbolize the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi due to its prominence as a weapon of interpersonal slaughter. Before the genocide, in addition to their agricultural uses, machetes were seen as tools for protection and for solving disputes. Hutu Extremists often framed their genocide as a war of self-defense. Machetes and other traditional weapons were used by poor people to kill other poor people, as Contextual factors often condition genocidaires\u2019 choices of weapon. The use of the machete was thus widespread. Months before the genocide, Human Rights Watch presented evidence that the government was purchasing weapons, including high volumes of machetes. The normative status of machetes as tools of self-defense resonated with the Hutu-extremist propaganda that framed the genocide as an act of collective self-defense. After the genocide, perpetrators continued to use the very machetes they had deployed in the genocide, in same the domestic manner in which they had used them previously. In a restorative transitional justice model, perpetrators should not have the option to keep the tools they used to commit mass atrocities.<\/p>\n

Quick Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Machete Images<\/a><\/p>\n

Purchase of Machetes<\/a><\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goose, Stephen D., and Frank Smyth. \u201cArming Genocide in Rwanda.\u201d Foreign Affairs<\/em> 73, no. 5 (1994): p. 91 86\u201396.<\/p>\n

Guichaoua, Andr\u00e9. “Did Machete Imports to Rwanda Prove that the Genocide against the Tutsi\u00a0Was Planned?” The Conversation<\/em>, September 2, 2020.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch. \u201cThe Rwandan Genocide: How It Was Prepared<\/a>.\u201d Human Rights Watch Briefing Papers. HRW Website. 2019.<\/p>\n

Meijer, C\u00e9celle, and Philip Verwimp. “The Use and Perception of Weapons Before and After\u00a0Conflict: Evidence from Rwanda.” Small Arms Survey<\/em>, (2005): 1-21.<\/p>\n

TRT World. \u201cSurvivor Recounts Horrors of Rwanda Genocide<\/a>.\u201d April 9, 2019. YouTube, <\/em>03:13.<\/p>\n

Verwimp, Philip. 2006. \u201cMachetes and Firearms: The Organization of Massacres in Rwanda.\u201d Journal of Peace Research<\/em> 43 (6): 5\u201322.<\/p>\n

Photo Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jose Jr Romero, Un Machete<\/em>. May 30, 2016.<\/a> WikiCommons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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