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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
Pasteur Bizimungu, President of Rwanda. [6] Agathe Habyarimana, first lady of Rwanda (born 1953) [7] Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda. [6] [7] Joseph Kavaruganda, Rwandan judge. [8] Jacqueline Mukansonera, Rwandan human rights activist. [9]
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]
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.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 ...
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 ...
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