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2 unusual facts about Rwandan


Rwandan

Kinyarwanda, the language of the Banyarwanda, sometimes known as Rwandan language.

Banyarwanda, inhabitants of the country Rwanda and those of Rwandan ethnicity.


Alison Des Forges

In the book, she argued that the genocide was organized by the Hutu-dominated Rwandan government at the time, rather than being a spontaneous outbreak of tribal conflicts.

André Sibomana

From 1988 André Sibomana was editor of the Roman Catholic newspaper Kinyamateka, owned by the Episcopal Conference, which was the only private newspaper in Rwanda and circulated widely in the Rwandan parishes.

Antoine Kambanda

In June 2011 he led five hundred Rwandan pilgrims to Namugongo, Uganda, to join the Martyrs Day ceremonies.

Arusha Accords

The opposition Foreign Minister, Boniface Ngulinzira, rather than Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, led the government delegation, and Habyarimana repeatedly vetoed the delegation's decisions.

Bizimungu

Augustin Bizimungu (b. 1952), former general of the Rwandan Armed Forces, currently serving 30 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity

Dambisa Moyo

Moyo's ideas are similar to those held by the Rwandan Government and President Paul Kagame.

Elias Ntaganda

Elias Ntaganda (born January 1, 1982 in Kinshasa), is a Rwandan football defender currently playing for APR FC.

Flower in the Gun Barrel

In these interviews, the survivors discuss what it means to be a Rwandan and to live next door to people who killed their families.

François-Xavier Verschave

Négrophobie, réponse aux "Négrologues", journalistes françafricains et autres falsificateurs de l'information, with Odile Tobner and Boubacar Boris Diop, 2005, Les Arènes, 200 p. (a book opposed to reporter Stephen Smith's Négrologie and his claims that France wasn't involved in the Rwandan genocide)

French Parliamentary Commission on Rwanda

In connection with the inquiry, the committee members spent two days in Rwanda, visiting the Murambi memorial and meeting with Rwandan officials and private organizations.

International Aid Transparency Initiative

It was presented by the United Kingdom's Secretary of International Development Douglas Alexander; along with Kemal Dervis, Head of the United Nations Development Programme; James Musconi, the Rwandan finance minister; and Kumi Naidoo, then president of CIVICUS.

James Kabarebe

Kabarebe is one of ten Rwandan officials accused in 2006 by Jean-Louis Bruguière, a French judge, of having taken part in the shooting down of the plane of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana.

During the First Congo War, Kabarebe was the commanding officer of a Rwandan-led army that crossed into the Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to defeat the ex-FAR and Interahamwe, Hutu militia groups that had committed the Rwandan genocide and were engaged in cross-border attacks on Rwanda.

Jean Marie Higiro

1945, was the Director of the Rwandan Information Office (ORINFOR), a government corporation that run Radio Rwanda, Rwandan Television and state controlled media in the Republic of Rwanda.

Jo Berry

On Monday 21 March 2011 Berry spoke at the Peace One Day conference in London and on Wednesday 12 May 2011 she spoke on a panel with Pat Magee, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Kayitesi Blewitt, who lost over 50 members of her family in the Rwandan genocide.

John Joseph Hirth

Hirth established himself at Kabgayi and worked with the Rwandan seminarists there until his retirement in 1921.

Jonathan Torgovnik

Torgovnik is also the co-founder of Foundation Rwanda an NGO that supports the education for children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide.

Killer Shrike

Killer Shrike was oddly absent when the team was blackmailed by Night Thrasher into providing relief for Rwandan refugees.

Munyaneza

Désiré Munyaneza, a Rwandan man currently living Canada, convicted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for his role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Charles Munyaneza, a Rwandan man currently living in Putnoe, near Bedford, England, also charged for genocide

My Way to Olympia

The film focuses on Matt Stutzman, an armless American archer; Norwegian table tennis player Aida Dahlen; the Rwandan sitting volleyball team; one-legged German swimmer Christiane Reppe and the tetraplegic Greek boccia player Greg Polychronidis.

National University of Rwanda

Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, Rwandan politician, current vice president of Low chamber of parliament in Rwanda and former 2010 presidential candidate in Rwanda

Jean Damascène Ntawukuliryayo, Rwandan Politician, President of the Rwanda senate

Padua Academy

Recipients include: Rwandan author and genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza (2010); Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon (2011); author and inspirational speaker Liz Murray (2012) and former First Lady Laura Bush (2013).

Pepa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

In April 2000 an Rwandan airforce Antonov An-8 crashed on take-off from the Pepa airstrip killing the crew of four and about 20 Rwandan soldiers including a Rwanda army major, two captains and two lieutenants.

Pierre Habumuremyi

Pierre Habumuremyi was subsequently appointed to the Rwandan government as Minister of Education in May 2011, replacing Charles Murigande.

Rusizi District

Its capital is Cyangugu, the major city of the Rwandan south-west and the district contains large parts of the former Cyangugu Province.

Rusumo

Rusumo District, a former district in the former Rwandan province of Kibungo

South Kivu

Africa Confidential said in 2011 that he 'clearly remains implacably opposed to the Rwandan government.

Theogene Rudasingwa

Theogene Rudasingwa is a leading figure in the Rwanda National Congress and a former Chief of Staff to Rwandan President Paul Kagame (2000-2004), former General Secretary of the Rwandan ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and former ambassador to the United States from 1996 to 1999.

Tom Close

He has collaborated with numerous Rwandan and international artists, including Knowles and Sean Kingston.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1332

The Council also called on all parties to take forward the disarmament, demobilisation, reintegration and repatriation/settlement of all armed groups, in particular the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), the Rwandan ex-FAR/Interahamwe and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).


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