Hutu Power was an ideology propounded by the akazu and other Hutu extremists which culminated in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was a response to anxiety over the return of what was known as Tutsi Power, or the generations-old feudal relations which tended to favour Tutsi over Hutu and Twa. During the attempted negotiations (Arusha Accords) between the Rwandan government and the RPF, President Juvenal Habyarimana thought that Paul Kagame's demands were unreasonable and aimed at restoring the social relationships which would bring back Tutsi Power.^[1] Two notable features of the Hutu Power movement were the Hutu Ten Commandments and the hate radio broadcasts. The Hutu Ten Commandments stated, for example, that Hutu and Tutsi should not intermarry, that the education system must be comprised of a Hutu majority, and that Rwandese armed forces should be exclusively Hutu.^[2] The most well-known of the hate-radio broadcasts was Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines. Its purpose was to build popular support for the Hutu Power ideology, and mobilize the population to participate in eradicating the Tutsi who were perceived as a threat to the social and political order envisioned by the akazu.^[3] Akazu (Little house) is an informal organisation of hutus created around former president Juvenal Habyarimana, being responsible, among others, for planning the 1994 genocide. ... The Hutu are a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi. ... The Rwandan genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu sympathizers in Rwanda and was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War. ... The Tutsi are one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa, the other two being the Twa and the Hutu. ... The Arusha Accords (also known as the Arusha Peace Agreement, or the Arusha negotiations) were a set of five accords (or protocols) signed by the Rwandese Patriotic Front and the Government of Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania on 4 August 1993, ending the civil war. ... Juvénal Habyarimana (March 8, 1937 - April 6, 1994) was president of Rwanda from 1973 until his death in 1994. ... Paul Kagame (born October 23, 1957) is the current President of Rwanda and the founder of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. ...

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