By the time the UN peacekeepers arrived in Rwanda at the end of 1993, it was probably too late for peacekeeping. The Hutu Power extremists had their own plans, beginning a policy of denigration of the Arusha Accords, encouraging violence against Tutsi and their murder, seeking a slide back into conflict. The extremists around Habyarimana saw the power-sharing concessions in the Accords as a sellout. Habyarimana, who had held power on behalf of the Akazu, the northern mafia, for twenty years, had been forced into political multiparty recognition and political reforms, and power-sharing with the
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