Republic of Rwanda
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Rwanda (formerly Ruanda-Urundi) is a land-locked state in central Africa, with Kigali. It was a colony of Belgium, which encouraged ethnic divisions resulting in 1959 in Hutu attacks on Tutsi, many oif whom fled to Uganda. Hutu monopolised power through parties or, after 1973, the Army under Habiyarimana. Economic decline and spoils politics in the 1980s intensified ethnic conflict, resulting in a Tutsi invasion in 1990, civil war, and an externally-enforced power-sharing agreement, undermined by genocidal attacks on Tutsi in 1994 and the regime's flight regime to Zaire. The post-94 RPF regime has encountered major problems with reconciliation, reconstruction and security. |
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 | Political Party: MRND Abbreviation of National Revolutionary Movement for Development. |
| Political Party: RPF Abbreviation of Rwandan Patriotic Front. |
| Published in the Journal | |
| Rwanda and the Media: Imagery, War and Refuge Article by Niranjan S Karnik from Vol.25 No.78 of the Review of African Political Economy (December 1998: pp611-623) |
| Central Africa Intervention Must Not Reinforce Hutu Extremists or Mobutu Regime Briefing by Washington Office on Africa from Vol.23 No.70 of the Review of African Political Economy (December 1996: pp567-579) |
| Ethnocide - Discourse and Perceptions Article by Michael Stephen from Vol.22 No.65 of the Review of African Political Economy (September 1995: pp367-371) |
| Rwanda: Death, Despair and Defiance Briefing by African Rights from Vol.21 No.61 of the Review of African Political Economy (September 1994: pp471-473) |
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