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Gatsinzi also served as Rwanda's Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2010. An ethnic Hutu from Butare, Gatsinzi was a member of the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR), which was the national army prior to the takeover of Rwanda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Biography
Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army 1 Major general Déogratias Nsabimana (1945–1994) April 1992 6 April 1994 † 2 years 2 Colonel Marcel Gatsinzi (born 1948) 7 April 1994 17 April 1994 10 days [1] 3 Major general Augustin Bizimungu (born 1952) 17 April 1994 July 1994 2 months [2] [3]
The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF, Kinyarwanda: Ingabo z'u Rwanda, French: Forces rwandaises de défense, Swahili: Nguvu ya Ulinzi ya Watu wa Rwanda) is the military of the Republic of Rwanda. The country's armed forces were originally known as the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR), but following the Rwandan Civil War of 1990–1994 and the Rwandan ...
Date apprehended. August 2002. Augustin Bizimungu (born 28 August 1952) is a Rwandan convicted war criminal and former general of the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). On 16 April 1994, at the start of the genocide against the Tutsi, he was appointed chief of staff of the army and promoted to the rank of major general. [1][2] In 2011, he was ...
Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi: November 2002 April 2010 8 9 Gen. James Kabarebe : April 2010 October 2018 8 10 Maj. Gen. Albert Murasira: October 2018 [3] 6 June 2023 5 11 Brig.-Gen. Juvenal Marizamunda: 6 June 2023 [4] Incumbent -
Operation Kitona. Operation Kitona was a Rwandan/Ugandan offensive that marked the beginning of the Second Congo War. Rwanda hoped to depose Laurent-Désiré Kabila and install a government more favorable to Rwanda's interests by quickly taking control of Kinshasa and the strategic western province of Bas-Congo (today Kongo Central). On August ...
Operation Gabriel. Operation Gabriel was the codename for the British military contribution in Rwanda as part of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda UNAMIR during the Rwandan genocide. British soldiers were deployed to Rwanda as part of a wider peacekeeping force that aimed to control the effects of the ongoing conflict and resulting genocide.
April 6, 1994, was the start of the civil war and ensuing genocide. That evening, the Rwandan president Major General Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down over the Kigali airport. Also on board was Cyprien Ntaryamira, the president of Burundi, and Deogratias Nsabimana, the chief of staff of the army. There were no survivors.