What is the FDLR, and why does its anti-Tutsi ideology endure?

Musanze, Rwanda – The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) was built on an ideology that cast the Tutsi as enemies, according to four of its former senior officers, who say they were taught to hate them long before the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group. “In our history and ideology, Tutsis are referred to as ‘snakes’,” said Anastase Munyaneza, a former FDLR major general. “The analogy is that if a snake bites you, it injects poison and you die. Therefore, it is better to kill the snake before it bites you.