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By late 1996, Hutu militants from the camps were launching regular cross-border incursions, and the RPF-led Rwandan government launched a counteroffensive. [306] Rwanda provided troops and military training to the Banyamulenge, [305] a Tutsi group in the Zairian South Kivu province, [307] helping them to defeat Zairian security forces. Rwandan ...
* Habyarimana's death triggered 100 days of violence in the tiny country, perpetrated mainly by Hutus against Tutsis and moderate Hutus. ... * The RPF advanced and seized control of Rwanda after ...
The multivolume report implicates proponents of Hutu Power in the attack and Philip Gourevitch states, "two months ago, on the day after Rwanda's admission to the Commonwealth, France and Rwanda reestablished normal diplomatic relations. Before that happened, of course, the Rwandans had shared the about-to-be-released Mutsinzi report with the ...
Other Hutu power extremist groups aligned themselves with the RGF (including the MRND, the president's own Hutu power extremist political party). On the opposite side, the RPF was viewed by the RGF and affiliated groups as trying to take control of Rwanda with only Tutsi interests in mind, shutting out the Hutus in an attempt to return to ...
Launched by the RPF in autumn 1990, the civil war threatened Rwanda’s French-supported Hutu government, raising the question of whether Rwanda would remain a single-party state dedicated to Hutu ...
Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi. Delegations from around the world will ...
By late 1996, Hutu militants from the camps were launching regular cross-border incursions and the RPF-led Rwandan Government launched a counter-offensive. [288] Rwanda provided troops and military training [287] to the Banyamulenge, a Tutsi group in the Zairian South Kivu province, [289] helping them to defeat Zairian security forces. Rwandan ...
April 7 - The Hutu Rwandans started murdering thousands of Tutsi Rwandans and moderate Hutus. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was among those murdered. April 8 - Théodore Sindikubwabo becomes interim President of Rwanda. April 21 - The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda. April 30 - Rwandan ...