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Paul Kagame. Paul Kagame ( / kəˈɡɑːmeɪ / ⓘ kə-GAH-may; born 23 October 1957) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the parties of the ...
The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994. The war arose from the long-running dispute between the Hutu and Tutsi groups within the Rwandan population.
On 7 April, as the genocide started, RPF commander Paul Kagame warned the crisis committee and UNAMIR that he would resume the civil war if the killing did not stop. [213] The next day, Rwandan government forces attacked the national parliament building from several directions, but RPF troops stationed there successfully fought back. [214]
The Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF–Inkotanyi; French: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) [ 2] is the ruling political party in Rwanda . The RPF was founded in December 1987 by Rwandan Tutsi in exile in Uganda because of the ethnic violence that had occurred during the Rwandan Hutu Revolution in 1959–1962. [ 3][ 4] In 1990, the RPF started the ...
List of presidents of Rwanda. President of the Republic of Rwanda. Presidential Standard. Incumbent Paul Kagame. since 22 April 2000 Acting: 24 March – 22 April 2000. Style. Mr President (informal) His Excellency (diplomatic) Type. Head of state Executive president.
Bugesera invasion (disputed) Civil War. v. t. e. On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed.
July 12, 2024 at 12:11 AM. KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandans vote Monday in an election that will almost certainly extend the long rule of President Paul Kagame, who is running virtually unopposed ...
When Kagame visited Washington in early 2001, Human Rights Watch criticized Rwanda for its involvement in the Second Congo War in which "as many as 1.7 million" civilians had died. [ 11 ] Regarding human rights under the government of President Paul Kagame, Human Rights Watch in 2007 accused Rwandan police of several instances of extrajudicial ...