The Rwandan genocide: a critical re-evaluation

In 2005, Filip Reyntjens published a controversial article title 'Rwanda, ten years on: from genocide to dictatorship'. In this article it is suggested that although the Rwandan Patriotic Front led by General Paul Kagame brought an end to genocide, his rule after 1994 was in fact a slide into political intolerance and persecution of opposition; in short, he fell deep into the African syndrome that sees every leader who starts out as an admired liberation-struggle hero transforming into an authoritarian one. In his actual words of assessing progress made in Rwanda after 1994, Reyntjens is less charitable to the new government which he accuses of creating a new dispensation dominated by the ideology of 'Tutsization, RPF-ization and the new Akazu' class (Reyntjens is supported by his academic colleagues. An Ansoms and Stefaan Marysse (2005) who also believe that poverty and inequalities in Rwanda have increased and not decreased under Kagame.