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Queen Rosalie Gicanda, wife of King Mutara III of Rwanda Jean-Léonard Rugambage , reporter and government critic, murdered in 2010 Paul Rusesabagina (b. 1954), hotel manager known for saving refugees in the 1994 genocide
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From the fifteenth century, when the Tutsi arrived in what is now Rwanda as migrant pastoralists, to the onset of colonization, Rwanda was a feudal monarchy. A Tutsi monarch ruled, distributing land and political authority through hereditary chiefs whose power was manifest in their land and cattle ownership. Most of these chiefs were Tutsis.
On 28 January 1961, in the coup of Gitarama during what was dubbed the Rwandan Revolution by the Belgian-favored Hutu extremist party Parmehutu, the Belgian colonial overseers abolished the monarchy and Rwanda became a republic [11] (retroactively approved by a Hutu led referendum held on 25 September of the same year). [12]
Traditionally, Rwandan women of marriageable age and high-status Rwandan men would wear the Amasunzu hairstyle, with the hair styled into elaborate crests. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] A considerable amount of traditional arts and crafts is produced by the Banyarwanda, although most originated as functional items rather than purely for decoration.
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One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide, a man suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special ...
Rwandan or Rwandese may refer to: Related to, from, or connected to Rwanda, a country in Africa; Banyarwanda, inhabitants of the country Rwanda and those of Rwandan ...