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October 25, 2026
October 25, 2026
What is the FDLR, and why does its anti-Tutsi ideology endure?
Card Number 36842
Number
36842
Author
Mushtaq, Layth
Date
October 22, 2026
Ymd
20261022
Title
What is the FDLR, and why does its anti-Tutsi ideology endure?
Subtitle
Four former FDLR officers reveal how its anti-Tutsi ideology took root and endured in Africa.
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54987 bytes
Pages nb.
6
Source
Type
Page web
Language
EN
Abstract
Based on the testimonies of four former senior officers of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), this investigation traces the origins of the anti-Tutsi ideology propagated within Rwanda's political and military institutions before the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and its subsequent perpetuation among armed groups established in Zaire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The witnesses discuss the involvement of the former Rwandan Armed Forces in the genocide, the establishment of the FDLR, their relations with Congolese authorities and armed groups, their sources of funding, and the persistence of an ideology targeting the Tutsi. The article emphasises that the military dismantling of the FDLR alone would not be sufficient to eradicate this ideology.