 The dominant Hutu ethnic group in Rwanda felt they must kill their ethnic neighbours, the Tutsi, due to established differences in ethnic identities which set them apart.As historian Sandra Joireman argues, "this type of explanation of the Rwanda genocide and its horrific violence, with its emphasis on the causes being due to the difference in Kinship and beliefs of the two ethnic groups, is a primordialist view".To a large extent, it was the belief in the primordialist argument of the kinship, historical traditions and homeland of these ethnic groups that encouraged the Hutu to feel their actions were justified.