Paul Kagame and his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) party as the RPF obtained another landslide victory in Rwanda's legislative election on Sept. 16 18, 2013.
America's State Department reported no political killings in Rwanda last year, but at least six opposition figures disappeared.Membership of the RPF is not compulsory, but prominent Rwandans come under great pressure to join.
In Rwanda the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide were replaced by the Rwandan Popular Front (RPF), whose own record is not spotless.
Maybe, but previous defectors have typically made public their reasons for fleeing.By the standards of previous regimes, the RPF is not unduly repressive.
The party will probably not survive the summer.The RPF, meanwhile, is signing up new members at an impressive pace.
Mr Kagame says his forces will not go back into Congo to hunt them down, as they did immediately after Mr Kagame's ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took power, setting off, according to his critics, a cycle of violence that led to a five-year regional conflagration that left perhaps 4m people dead.
Four parties are in open coalition with the RPF.
These incidents were never investigated, partly because they took place in eastern Congo, which is still occupied by Rwandan troops, and partly because the Congolese government, at that time backed by Rwanda, blocked all efforts by the UN to find out what had happened.The victims were Hutus who left Rwanda in 1994, fleeing before the advancing RPF.
Most of them were put to flight by Mr Kagame's own then-rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), that forced an end to the genocide in 1994.
Human-rights critics say these ill-defined laws are being abused by the government, enabling it to prosecute anyone, including young children, who say anything the government dislikes or who draw attention to the role of Mr Kagame's own RPF in the massacres of 1994.
