Hassan Ngeze

Hassan Ngeze (born 1962) is a Rwandan journalist, best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments", which fomented anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus prior to the Rwandan Genocide. Ngeze was a leadership figure in the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (CDR). The CDR was a Rwandan Hutu fascist political party that incited the Rwandan Genocide.

Ngeze was born in Rubavu Commune, Gisenyi Prefecture, in Rwanda. He is a Muslim, of Hutu ethnicity. In 1990, he founded the newspaper Kangura, initially intended as a counterweight to the popular anti-government newspaper Kanguka. Kangura was financed by high-level members in the ruling MRND party, and later the extremist Coalition for the Defence of the Republic, and thus had extensive links to the Akazu, the network of President Juvénal Habyarimana.

In December 1990, Ngeze published the Hutu Ten Commandments (sometimes called the Ten Commandments of the Bahutu), which made disparaging remarks about Tutsis in general and Tutsi women in particular.

In 1993, Ngeze became a shareholder and correspondent for the newly-founded Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), which was largely a radio equivalent of Kangura.