The Mechanisms of Genocide Ideology in North Kivu

This book analyzes the mechanisms of genocide ideology which takes its roots in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, when the genocide perpetrators crossed into former Zaire in July 1994, and established themselves as the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). The genocide perpetrators and their families have taken control over large areas in the North Kivu province, and the genocide ideaology they have brought with them has permeated the Congolese society, which due to a lack of state administration, is creating insecurity and absence of basic services for the Congolese communities in North Kivu. Despite the presence of close to three decades of the peacekeeping mission MONUSCO, there are over 200 armed groups committing violence in Eastern DRC. The Congolese Tutsi has been the most targeted community by the violence in North Kivu. Added to the targetting of the Hema community in Ituri and the Banyamulenge in South Kivu, the situation has led to close to a million refugees who have fled into neighboring countries in the last thirty years. This book draws from field research and interviews of refugees who have fled insecurity and violence in former FDLR-controlled areas, of former FDLR fighters who have laid arms, and of fighters who have joined the M23 movement, which fights to uproot the FDLR and its genocide ideology. The analysis this book provides complements current scholarly reasearch in genocide studies and critical discourse analysis, and offers an overview of the mechanisms of genocide ideology, while providing genocide prevention recommendations.