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• Aegis Trust
  Aegis Trust
  Aegis Trust, founded in 2000, is the leading British NGO which campaigns to prevent genocide worldwide. Based at the United Kingdom’s Holocaust Centre, which opened in 1995, the Aegis Trust coordinates the UK Genocide Prevention All-Party Parliamentary Group , funds the Genocide Prevention Group ...
  
  
• Agathe Habyarimana
  Agathe Habyarimana
  Agathe Habyarimana is the widow of former President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana. Kanziga is part of a Hutu lineage that long ruled an independent principality until the late nineteenth century...
  
  
• Akazu
  Akazu
  The Akazu was an informal organization of Hutu extremists, a circle of relatives and close friends of then Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and his influential wife Agathe Habyarimana...
  
  
• Arusha Accords
  Arusha Accords
  The Arusha Accords were a set of five accords signed in Arusha, Tanzania on August 4, 1993, by the government of Rwanda and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front , under mediation, to end a three-year Rwandan Civil War...
  
  
• Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira
  Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira
  The assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on the evening of April 6, 1994, was the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide. The airplane carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda....
  
  

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• Banyamulenge
  Banyamulenge
  The Banyamulenge is a term historically describing the ethnic Tutsi Rwandans concentrated on the High Plateau of South Kivu, in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , close to the Burundi-Congo-Rwanda border...
  
  
• Banyarwanda
  Banyarwanda
  Banyarwanda actually means the people of Hutu, Tutsi and Batwah. Some lived on the present territory of the DRC before colonization, while others have migrated from neighboring Rwanda in waves. They live in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo....
  
  
• Belgian colonial empire
  Belgian colonial empire
  The Belgian colonial empire consisted of three colonies possessed by Belgium between 1901 and 1962: Belgian Congo , Rwanda and Burundi...
  
  
• Brent Beardsley
• Burundi
  Burundi
  Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
  
  
• Burundi genocide
  Burundi genocide
  Since Burundi's independence in 1962, there have been two events called genocides in the country. The 1972 mass killings of Hutus by the Tutsi-dominated army, and the 1993 mass killings of Tutsis by the Hutu populace are both described as genocide in the final report of the International...
  
  

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• East Africa
  East Africa
  East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
  
  
• East African Community
  East African Community
  The East African Community is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the five east African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of the Republic of Burundi, is the current Chairman of the East African Community. The EAC was originally...
  
  
• East African Federation
  East African Federation
  East African Federation is the name of the proposed political union of the member nations of the East African Community, such that the five member states would federate into a single sovereign state....
  
  
• Eastern Province, Rwanda
• Emmanuel Habyarimana
  Emmanuel Habyarimana
  Emmanuel Habyarimana is a former Rwandan soldier and politician.Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, was a former member of the Rwandan Armed Forces in the Hutu-dominated state of Juvénal Habyarimana...
  
  

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• Gacaca
• Gahini
  Gahini
  Gahini is a village and sector in Kayonza District, Eastern Province, Rwanda. It is situated on a hill, at an altitude of 1,520 metres above sea-level, close to the eastern edge of Lake Muhazi and by road from the capital, Kigali...
  
  
• Gatuna
  Gatuna
  Gatuna is a town in northern Rwanda.-Location:Gatuna is located in Burera District, Northern Province, at the border with the Republic of Uganda. Its location is about , by road, north of Kigali, Rwanda's capital and largest city...
  
  
• Georges Rutaganda
  Georges Rutaganda
  Georges Rutaganda was the vice president of the Rwandan Hutu militia Interahamwe.Rutaganda was partly responsible for the Rwandan Genocide of 1994...
  
  
• German East Africa
  German East Africa
  German East Africa was a German colony in East Africa, which included what are now :Burundi, :Rwanda and Tanganyika . Its area was , nearly three times the size of Germany today....
  
  
• Gisenyi
  Gisenyi
  Gisenyi is a city in Rubavu district in the Western Province of Rwanda. Gisenyi is contiguous with Goma, the city across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The population of the city is about 106 000 .-Description:...
  
  
• Gitarama
• Gitarama Province
  Gitarama Province
  Gitarama was one of the former twelve provinces of Rwanda and was situated in the centre of the country, to the west of the capital Kigali....
  
  
• Great Lakes refugee crisis
  Great Lakes refugee crisis
  The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide...
  
  
• Grégoire Kayibanda
  Grégoire Kayibanda
  Grégoire Kayibanda was the first elected and second President of the Republic of Rwanda. He led Rwanda's struggle for independence from Belgium, and replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government. He asserted Hutu majority power.-Early life and education:Grégoire Kayibanda was...
  
  
• Gustav Adolf von Götzen
  Gustav Adolf von Götzen
  Count Gustav Adolf von Götzen was a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa. He was the second European to set foot in Rwanda, after Dr Oscar Baumann, and later presided over the bloody quashing of the Maji Maji Rebellion in what is now Tanzania.- Early life :Götzen studied law at the...
  
  

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• Hamitic hypothesis
• History of Rwanda
  History of Rwanda
  Human occupation of Rwanda is thought to have begun shortly after the last ice age. By the fifteenth century the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms...
  
  
• Hôtel des Mille Collines
  Hôtel des Mille Collines
  The Hôtel des Mille Collines is a large hotel in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. It became famous as the building in which more than a thousand people took refuge during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994...
  
  
• Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
  
  
• Hutu
  Hutu
  The Hutu , or Abahutu, are a Central African people, living mainly in Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern DR Congo.-Population statistics:The Hutu are the largest of the three peoples in Burundi and Rwanda; according to the United States Central Intelligence Agency, 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians...
  
  
• Hutu Power
  Hutu Power
  Hutu Power was an ideology propounded by the Akazu and other Hutu extremists in Rwanda. It contributed to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu.-Background:...
  
  

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• Kangura
  Kangura
  Kangura was a Kinyarwanda- and French-language magazine in Rwanda that served to stoke ethnic hatred in the run-up to the Rwandan Genocide. It was established in 1990, following the invasion of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front , and continued publishing up to the genocide...
  
  
• Kigali
  Kigali
  Kigali, population 965,398 , is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is situated near the geographic centre of the nation, and has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda since it became capital at independence in 1962. The main residence and offices of the President of...
  
  
• Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
  Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
  The Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management in Kigali, Rwanda is the first technology-focused institution of higher education to be created by the Rwanda government.It was established in November, 1997...
  
  
• Kigali International Airport
  Kigali International Airport
  Kigali International Airport , formerly known as Gregoire Kayibanda International Airport, but sometimes referred to as Kanombe International Airport, is the primary airport serving Kigali, the capital of Rwanda...
  
  
• Kigali Province, Rwanda
• Kigali Rural
  Kigali Rural
  Kigali-Rural Province, known in Kinyarwanda as Kigali-Ngali, was a province that surrounds the city of Kigali, Rwanda. It was abolished in 2006, along with other existing provinces at the time, in favour of a system of redrawn provinces....
  
  
• Kigeri V of Rwanda
• Kingdom of Rwanda
• Kinyarwanda

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• Lake Kivu
  Lake Kivu
  Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, a part of the Great Rift Valley. Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika...
  
  
• Lake Muhazi
  Lake Muhazi
  Lake Muhazi is a long thin shallow lake in the east of Rwanda. The bulk of the lake lies in the Eastern Province, with the western end forming the border between the Northern and Kigali Provinces. It is a flooded valley lake, lying predominantly in an east to west direction, but with numerous...
  
  
• Laurent Kabila
• LGBT rights in Rwanda
  LGBT rights in Rwanda
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Rwandan citizens may face greater legal and social difficulties in comparison to citizens who are heterosexual. While homosexuality is not de jure illegal, sexual orientation is considered a taboo topic, and there is no significant public discussion of this...
  
   (Gay rights)
• List of kings of Rwanda
• List of presidents of Rwanda
• Louis Rwagasore
  Louis Rwagasore
  Prince Louis Rwagasore is Burundi's national and independence hero. He was a Burundi nationalist and prime minister.- Biography :...
  
  

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• National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
• Nile River
• Northern Province, Rwanda
• Nyagatare
  Nyagatare
  Nyagatare is a city and capital of Nyagatare district in Eastern Province, Rwanda. It has a population of 9000 inhabitants.The city is located at the end of a 12 km spur from the Kayonza-Kagitumba road, and has grown considerably since 1994, boosted by an influx of former refugees from Uganda...
  
  
• Nyungwe Forest
  Nyungwe Forest
  Nyungwe Forest National Park is a national park in southwestern Rwanda, located south of Lake Kivu on the border with Burundi. The park was established in 2004 and covers an area of approximately 970 km² of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs. The nearest town is Cyangugu, 54 km to the...
  
  

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• Parmehutu
  Parmehutu
  Parmehutu , also known as MDR-Parmehutu is a now-defunct political party of Rwanda and Burundi.It was founded by Grégoire Kayibanda as a political party of moderate Hutu...
  
  
• Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
  Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
  The Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages is a project to promote agricultural improvement in Rwanda....
  
  
• Pasteur Bizimungu
  Pasteur Bizimungu
  Pasteur Bizimungu was the fifth President of Rwanda from 19 July 1994 until 23 March 2000. He is considered belonging to the Hutu caste/ethnic group and was born in the Gisenyi prefecture of Rwanda. Bizimungu worked within the Hutu MRND regime which ruled Rwanda , including as director general of...
  
  
• Paul Kagame
  Paul Kagame
  Paul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
  
  
• Paul Rusesabagina
  Paul Rusesabagina
  Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan humanitarian who has been internationally honored for saving 1,268 refugees during the Rwandan Genocide. He was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines before he became the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, both in Kigali, Rwanda...
  
  
• President of Rwanda
• Pretoria Accord
  Pretoria Accord
  The Pretoria Accord was a July 2002 agreement made between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an effort to bring about an end to the Second Congo War...
  
  
• Pygmy
  Pygmy
  Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually short; anthropologists define pygmy as any group whose adult men grow to less than 150 cm in average height. A member of a slightly taller group is termed "pygmoid." The best known pygmies are the Aka,...
  
  

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• Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda
• Roméo Dallaire
  Roméo Dallaire
  Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, is a Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general...
  
  
• Ruanda-Urundi
  Ruanda-Urundi
  Ruanda-Urundi was a Belgian suzerainty from 1916 to 1924, a League of Nations Class B Mandate from 1924 to 1945 and then a United Nations trust territory until 1962, when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi.- Overview :...
  
  
• Rusumo Falls
  Rusumo Falls
  Rusumo Falls is a waterfall located on the Kagera river on the border between Rwanda and Tanzania, part of the most distant headwaters of the river Nile...
  
  
• Rwanda
  Rwanda
  Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
  
  
• Rwandan Civil War
  Rwandan Civil War
  The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict within the Central African nation of Rwanda between the government of President Juvénal Habyarimana and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front...
  
  
• Rwandan Genocide
  Rwandan Genocide
  The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
  
  
• Rwanda Patriotic Front

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• Shake Hands with the Devil
  Shake Hands with the Devil (book)
  Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is a book by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Forces, with help from Major Brent Beardsley...
  
  
• Southern Province, Rwanda

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• Western Province, Rwanda
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch....