 It has been argued that an appeal to ethnic homelands was present in the genocide, "based on the notion that Rwanda belonged to the Hutu, its true inhabitants" and that the Tutsi had encroached on this ancient, ethnic territory (cf.Hamitic Theory).The scholar Jefremovas offers a criticism of a primordial view of ethnicity within Rwanda, stating that, despite the strong focus on ethnic differences, "Tutsi and Hutu live in the same places, speak the same language, practice the same religions".