Editing Interahamwe (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Interahamwe'' can be translated as "those who work together" or loosely as "those who fight together" in [[Kinyarwanda]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm |publisher=BBC News |title=Rwanda: How the genocide happened |date=17 May 2011 |access-date=5 August 2008 |archive-date=6 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806001825/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Work'', in racist radio broadcasts during the genocide, was used as slang that meant using machetes to kill.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bührer |first=Michel |year=1996 |title=Rwanda : Memoire d'un génocide |publisher=Editions UNESCO|location=Paris |page=12}}</ref> The name ''[[wikt:Interahamwe|Interahamwe]]'' can be broken up as follows: ''[[wikt:intera|intera]]'' is derived from the verb ''[[wikt:gutera|gutera]]'', meaning "to work"; ''[[wikt:hamwe|hamwe]]'' means "together" and is related to the word ''[[wikt:rimwe|rimwe]]'' for "one".

[[English language|English]] speakers usually pronounce it as {{IPAc-en|ˌ|ɪ|n|t|ər|ə|ˈ|h|ɑː|m|w|eɪ}}, though it is pronounced {{IPA|rw|inhêːɾɑhɑ́mwe|}} in Kinyarwanda.{{Fact|date=February 2025}} However, when speaking English, Rwandans will sometimes pronounce it in an English manner.{{Fact|date=February 2025}} The difference can be observed by listening to [[Paul Rusesabagina]] in the ''Return to Rwanda'' feature of a ''[[Hotel Rwanda]]'' DVD, and to the translator for a survivor of the [[Nyarubuye massacre]] in ''"Frontline" Ghosts of Rwanda''.{{Fact|date=February 2025}}