After three months of fighting, Kagame's forces reached the capital, Kigali, and drove the Rwandan army and government-backed militias from power.
By Katrin Piazza KIGALI, Rwanda, 3 June 2011 – At the Lake Muhazi Centre, an hour's drive from the Rwandan capital, 30 adolescent boys have come together for a three-month course that offers counselling, education, recreational activities and vocational training.
Rwandan troops drove Ugandan forces from this city, Congo's third largest, after a fierce seven-hour battle today that ended a week of widespread shelling and enabled the United Nations to deploy forces between the two armies and prepare for their withdrawal.
A3 A Battle in Congo Ends Rwandan troops drove Ugandan forces from Congo's third-largest city after a fierce seven-hour battle that ended a week of widespread shelling and enabled the United Nations to deploy forces between the two armies and prepare for their withdrawal.
As French admits, the thinking behind the Rwandan government's drive was to pre-empt a new wave of violence on the part of "revenge-minded" Hutu exiles, thousands of them directly involved in the genocide.
I had met them in 1996, a few weeks after Kagame sent his army into Congo (or Zaire, as it was called at the time) to drive the vast majority of the Rwandans in the U.N. camps there home, and to hunt down those who resisted repatriation.
Two factors drove the dichotomization of Rwandans into what were deemed primordial Hutu and Tutsi categories.
This is understandable because they are driven by the memory of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
Two black Rwandan-government Mercedes sedans stood in the drive when I stopped by, on a May morning, and a man at the gate introduced himself as Sindikubwabo's chief of protocol.
But while the regime was good at killing unarmed civilians it proved less efficient against a Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) under Paul Kagame, which drove the extremists from power and with it sent more than a million Hutu refugees fleeing into Zaire fearing revenge for the genocide.
