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The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi; French: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) [2] is the ruling political party in Rwanda.. The RPF was founded in December 1987 by Rwandan Tutsi in exile in Uganda because of the ethnic violence that had occurred during the Rwandan Hutu Revolution in 1959–1962.
The country's armed forces were originally known as the Forces armées rwandaises (FAR), but following the Rwandan Civil War of 1990–1994 and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (Inkotanyi) renamed it the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), its army name during the struggle of 1990–1994. Later, it was ...
RPF–Inkotanyi FPR–Inkotanyi Paul Kagame: Big tent: Rwandan nationalism Right-wing populism Economic liberalism: 37 / 80. Centrist Democratic Party
The French remained hostile to the RPF and their presence held up the RPF's advance in the south-west of the country. [236] Opération Turquoise remained in Rwanda until 21 August 1994. [ 237 ] French activity in Rwanda during the civil war later became a subject of much study and dispute, and generated an unprecedent debate about French ...
The Arusha Accords, officially the Peace Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Rwanda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, also known as the Arusha Peace Agreement or Arusha negotiations, were a set of five accords (or protocols) signed in Arusha, Tanzania on 4 August 1993, by the government of Rwanda and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), under mediation, to end a three-year ...
In 2011, as the RPF witnessed defections amongst its most senior military officers and political figures who used to be very close to President Paul Kagame, the UDF-Inkingi formed an alliance with RPF dissidents who had started their own party, namely, the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), spearheaded by former army chief-of-staff Kayumba ...
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The RPF-Inkotanyi started as a Tutsi-dominated party but its ideologies are supported by most Rwandans. 6eeWikiUser ( talk ) 20:18, 4 March 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] I have not seen any independent RS that Rwanda is functionally, not just nominally, a democracy (no free & fair elections have been held).