TUTSI GENOCIDEAND POLITICAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN RWANDA AFTER 1994.

In the early 1990s, Rwanda experienced one of the most terrible cases of genocide the world has witnessed since the end of World War II. Since genocide is the most aberrant of human behaviours, it cries out for explanation. Why did it occur? This article tries to offer a brief analysis and explanation of that terrible incidence, utilizing the human materialism paradigm. Human beings are conceptualized as rational, emotional, loving and hating, social creatures who are indoctrinated to some degree in ideological, ritual and symbolic systems that influence their thought, behaviour and perception of their nature. One of the most depressing accounts of the slaughters is the Africa Publication, Rwanda: Not so Innocent-When Women Become Killers. It describes the general participation of the Hutu in the genocide and followed instruction from the highest level of the political, military and administrative authorities. At an intermediate level, large numbers of people from all occupations were involved, both directly and indirectly. The extremist exhorted the Interahamwe and ordinary Hutu to kill Tutsi and eat their cows. Even though human materialism avoids habituallyreductionist characteristics of human nature, it still manages to offer a framework or research strategy for investigating human nature systems and generating hypotheses and theories that facilitate understanding, explanation and predilection. This article shows how the Government of Rwanda post-genocide dealt with these inconveniences in order to create a supra-ethnic Rwanda.