Editing Akazu

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|image =Akazu.jpg
|fullname =Akazu 
|alias = "Little House"<br>Zero Network<br>''Le Clan de Madame''
|origin =Rwanda
|occupation =
|type of villain = Genocidal Extremists
|goals = Exterminate all Tutsis in Rwanda (failed)
|crimes =[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]] 
|hobby = 
}}
The '''Akazu''' was an informal group of [[Hutu Power]] adherents who participated in and planned the [[Rwandan Genocide]]. Many of the members were friends or relatives of [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] or [[Agathe Habyarimana|his wife]] and belonged to the ruling [[MRND]] party. They were often referred to as the Zero Network because they wanted a Rwanda with zero Tutsis.

The word ''akazu'' is Kinyarwanda for "little house".
==History==
The Akazu were relatives of Habyarimana's and others he knew from his Northern Rwanda district; they held important appointed positions of authority in the Hutu regime. The Akazu did not wish to share government with the Tutsis (particularly [[Paul Kagame]]'s rebels) or moderate Hutus. They contributed to the development of Hutu Power ideology and fanned resentment against the Tutsi during the early 1990's following the outbreak of the [[Civil War|civil war]].

Some scholars believe their [[genocide|genocidal]] ideology and massacres were an effort to hold on to the political power they had gathered since Habyarimana came to power in a military coup against the elected government.

== Members ==
* [[Agathe Habyarimana]] (leader)
* [[Protais Zigiranyriazo]]
* [[Elie Sagatwa]]
* [[Felicien Kabuga]]
* [[Alphonse Higaniro]]
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