The RPF saw the camps as an existential threat, supplying a base to Hutu revanchists as they plotted their return to power
I vaguely remember reading about this in A Thousand Hills, though that was from Kagame's POV so I guess I didn't get the full story
In these circumstances, popular jacquerie was not directed by any kind of hegemonic leadership and went nowhere.
In these circumstances, popular jacquerie was not directed by any kind of hegemonic leadership and went nowhere.
In place of the old party-state, hundreds of parties were established—many of them simply ‘partis alimentaires’, ideology-free ‘eating parties’ designed to sell their support to various power-brokers, and filled with hungry cadres in search of (often pathetically small) financial rewards.
This form of distribution is often referred to in Weberian terms as ‘neo-patrimonialism’—the ‘neo’ indicating that the apparatus of a modern state is used to administer patronage, yet without the forms of institutional separation between individual networks and office said to be characteristic of modern forms of authority.
