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Rwanda: In Brief Congressional Research Service 2 political and civil rights may ultimately undermine Rwanda's hard-won stability, and that limits on civil liberties may mask ethnic, political, and social tensions.7 Given evident constraints on free expression, some observers argue that "we simply don't know what Rwandans want from CIVIL WAR: 1990-1992 The recent violence within Rwanda had its origins in the October, 1990, attack by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from its bases in Uganda. Predominantly of Tutsi origin, many of the members of the RPF were refugees, or descendants of who fled Rwanda during the postcolonial establishment of a Hutu-dominated government in the The 1994 Rwandan Genocide was a brutal, bloody slaughter that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi (and Hutu sympathizers). Much of the hatred between the Tutsi and Hutu stemmed from the ways they were treated under Belgian rule. killed as a result of civil war and gen ocide in Rwanda. Large numbers were physically and psy cho-logically afflicted for life through maiming, rape and other trauma; over two million fled to neigh-bouring countries and maybe half as many became internally displaced within Rwanda. This human suffering was and is incomprehensible. civil war. This report synthesizes the team's findings. Assistance to Rwanda Helping the people of a war-torn nation rehabilitate and reconstruct their society is a politically delicate process requiring sub-stantial financial commitment and program-matic coherence from the international community. With Rwanda, the challenge in rwanda and the surrounding events annex b the international panel of eminent personalities to investigate the 1994 genocide in rwanda and the surrounding events annex c experts , researchers and editors annex d persons who made presentations to the panel annex e war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide Burundi and Rwanda, located in East-Central Africa, are two countries that have a lot in common. The most devastating similarity is that the two countries have both experienced violent civil wars resulting from the escalation of tensions between their main ethnic groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu. By Nicole Winfield Associated Press/ Nando Media December 16, 1999. United Nations - A report assessing United Nations involvement in Rwanda said on its release Thursday that the UN and its member states failed Rwanda in deplorable ways in 1994, ignoring evidence that a genocide was planned, refusing to act once it was under way and finally abandoning the Rwandan people when they most needed 4 PREAMBLE WHEREAS it is self - evident that the recent Rwanda Catastrophe is the worst and most flabbergasting experience Africa and the entire World Community have ever witnessed in our history of civil wars; AND WHEREAS in the first horrifying experience of the Congolese Civil War of 1960 61, Africa had suffered dreadfully with a loss of immense number of innocent lives Rwanda: Background and Current Developments Congressional Research Service Summary In 2003, Rwanda held its first multi-party presidential and parliamentary elections in decades. President Paul Kagame of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) won 95% of the votes cast, while his nearest rival, Faustin Twagiramungu, received 3.6% of the votes cast. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA. We, KAGAME Paul, Civil and Political Rights of 19 December 1966, the International Covenant on crimes against humanity and war crimes do not h