Impuzamugambi

The Impuzamugambi, also Impuza Mugambi ( Kinyarwanda: " have the same goal " or "the fight for a goal " ), was a Founded in 1992, armed militia of Hutu in Rwanda, the instrumental in the addition of a little earlier incurred and numerically larger Interahamwe genocide was involved in the Tutsi in 1994. In contrast to the Interahamwe, whose leading personnel, despite their formal independence from the ruling Hutu MRND movement of these hires, the Impuzamugambi was very poorly organized. She had no own leadership structures, but reported directly to the Coalition pour la Défense de la République (CDR ), and sat down substantially from their young members. The CDR was another, allied with the MRND, the party of the Hutu majority, however, was set in their positions significantly extremist Pro- Hutu and anti- Tutsi.

As the Interahamwe the Impuzamugambi was trained and equipped by the Rwandan army and the bodyguard of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and leader of the MRND. With the start of the genocide in April 1994, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi mixed largely in their structures and activities, even if a distinction based on their clothing was partially still possible. Some génocidaires, however, involved both militias in the killings of the Tutsi. After the end of the genocide, the members of Impuzamugambi and the Interahamwe and a large part of the Hutu population of Rwanda in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo fled.

From the leadership of CDR in particular Hassan Ngeze and Jean- Bosco Barayagwiza were responsible for the management of Impuzamugambi. Both were to life imprisonment in 2003 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for planning and execution of the genocide, incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity. The penalty against Barayagwiza was reduced because of a procedural error to 35 years in prison, of which he will spend at least 27 years in prison after offsetting prior prison term.