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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 conflict during ...
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]
Kagame was elected president in April 2000 and remains in the office. TRIALS: * In December 1996, Rwanda's first genocide trial opened at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in ...
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his wife led 37 visiting leaders at a. Rwanda's president on Sunday led commemorations to mark 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed more than 1 million ...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame attends a commemoration ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2024.
Photographs of genocide victims displayed at the Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali. Subsequent governments, including the current government led by President Paul Kagame, have committed grave violations of human rights. [2] On 22 April 1995 the Rwandan Patriotic Army killed more than 4,000 people in the Kibeho massacre. [3]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he was concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country's minority Tutsis. Kagame told ...
President Paul Kagame at Community work in 2016. After the RPF stopped the genocide and took control of the country, in 1994, it formed a government of national unity headed by a president, Pasteur Bizimungu. Paul Kagame became Minister of Defense and Vice-President. [41]