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Well said, roachboy. Another way of looking at it is with this construction: "We should do [blank] to [the other] because they aren't [us], and they are the cause of [something we fear or hate]."
There are many bits of this kind of thing throughout history. Go back to your Rwanda example, and especially Nazi Germany.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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