Rwandan Civil War

The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict between the Hutu-dominated government of Rwanda and the Tutsi-dominated rebel group of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, lasting from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994.

Rwandan Civil War Media

• Rwanda Nyanza Mwami Palace.jpg

  A reconstruction of the King of Rwanda's palace at Nyanza

• Juvénal Habyarimana (1980).jpg

  Hutu army officer Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured) became President of Rwanda after a 1973 coup.

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  Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni with Ronald Reagan at the White House in October 1987

• RwandaVolcanoAndLake cropped2.jpg

  The Virunga Mountains, the RPF base from 1990 to 1991

• Ruhengeri.jpg

  The town of Ruhengeri, with the Virunga Mountains in the background

• RwandaTerritoryAfterFeb1993.png

  The partition of Rwanda following the RPF offensive in February 1993. For the first time, the Rwandan Government acknowledged that it had lost part of the country.

• AICC Arusha.jpg

  The Arusha International Conference Centre, venue for peace talks to end the war

• RPF advance Rwandan genocide with Zone Turquise.png

  Map showing the advance of the RPF during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. English language version of an existing German-language Commons file found here made by CosmicGirl based on info found in: * * Alan J. Kuperman: The limits of humanitarian intervention. Genocide in Rwanda, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC 2001, ISBN 0-8157-0086-5,

• French milouf DF-ST-99-05514.JPEG

  French soldiers in Kigali, August 1994

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  Vice president and de facto Rwandan leader Paul Kagame with United States Secretary of Defense William Perry in July 1994