Several international and domestic airlines operate there, including KLM, Condor Flugdienst, RwandAir, Fly540, Ethiopian Airways, Kenya Airways, Precision Air Services, and, beginning 25 July 2012, Qatar Airways.

He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), whose military victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide.

An ethnic Hutu, he was well-connected to the Hutu establishment of politicians, businessmen and military officers which then controlled Rwanda: he is the brother of Agathe Kanziga, wife of the late Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana, whose assassination on 6 April 1994 precipitated the events leading to the genocide.

Hutu Rwandan genocidal leaders are on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the Rwandan National Court system, and, most recently, through the informal Gacaca programme.

In 2010 Amnesty International " strongly condemned a worrying attack on a Rwandan opposition group " in the lead-up to presidential elections, citing the case of Victoire Ingasbire, president of the FDU-Inkingi ( United Democratic Forces ) and her aide Joseph Ntawangundi, attacked in February 2010 while collecting party registration documents from a government building in Kigali.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ) () is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.

Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by the Rwandan Defence Forces and ADFL during and after the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda revealed in his testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal that the genocide was openly discussed in cabinet meetings and that "... one cabinet minister said she was personally in favor of getting rid of all Tutsi ; without the Tutsi, she told ministers, all of Rwanda's problems would be over.

* King Kigeli V was awarded the Gold Star Award from by the International Strategic Studies Association for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress Through Humanitarian Achievement for his work for Rwandan refugees in Africa.

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Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces -

The true extent of the abuses is unknown because the AFDL and RPF carefully managed NGO and press access to areas where atrocities were thought to have occurred however Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces and aligned forces.

He is chiefly known for his key role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, for which he has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ).

On December 18, 2008, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Bagosora and two other senior Rwandan army officers, Major Aloys Ntabakuze and Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva, guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

During testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ) investigating the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, expert André Guichaoua referred to Butare as the " rebel province.

At approximately 8: 20 pm on April 6, 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan Armed Forces ( FAR ) Chief of Staff Deogratias Nsabimana, and other prominent figures was shot down while approaching Kigali International Airport.

* The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentences Mika Muhimana, former Hutu civic leader, to life imprisonment for his role in the Rwandan genocide.

He was named as overall winner of the Amnesty International Press Awards in 1993 and won an Amnesty television prize in 1994 for his investigation of the Rwandan genocide, Journey Into Darkness.

He has been involved in high-profile cases involving human rights and war crimes and has defended those accused of these crimes in Rwanda ( see Rwandan Genocide ) and the former Yugoslavia and is on the list of counsel at the International Criminal Court.

Black defended General Augustin Ndindiliyimana the former chief of staff of Rwanda's Gendarmerie or National Police Force, and highest ranking Rwandan military officer, before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania who was acquitted of all substantive charges against him in 2011 but convicted of genocide based on simple failure to punish some subordinates for alleged crimes which conviction is under appeal.

" Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 ":

Largely composed of former Rwandan Patriotic Army ( RPA ) fighters, it comprises ( a ) The High Command Council of the Rwanda Defence Forces ; ( b ) the General Staff of the Rwanda Defence Forces ; ( c ) the Rwanda Land Force ; ( d ) the Rwanda Air Force ; and ( e ) specialised units.

The Air Force of Zimbabwe's BAE Hawks were armed with BL755s, which were used against the Rwandan, Ugandan and Congolese rebel forces during the early stages of the Second Congo War, in support of Congolese leader Laurent Kabila.

American Association for Rwandan Women

* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

The biggest problems facing the government are reintegration of more than 2 million refugees returning from as long ago as 1959 ; the end of the insurgency and counter-insurgency among ex-military and Interahamwe militia and the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which is concentrated in the north and south west ; and the shift away from crisis to medium-and long-term development planning.

The Rwandan economy is based on the largely rainfed agricultural production of small, semisubsistence, and increasingly fragmented farms.

In addition to the well-publicised involvement in this trade of the Rwandan Defence Force ( RDF ), another important factor in the coltan re-export is that international dealers are under pressure not to buy from the DRC, thus increasing the incentive for DRC coltan to be re-exported as Rwanda's.

Government investment in the Rwandan telecommunication sector is growing and has been successful so far.

Rwandan troops remain in the Congo, backing rebels that aim to overthrow Laurent Kabila ’ s son, Joseph Kabila, who is now the President of the Congo.

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At the same time, the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country and is still the ruling party.

Rwandan genocide remains an atrocity that the indigenous Hutu and Tutsi peoples still believe is unforgivable.

The current Rwandan Pygmy population is about 33, 000, and is reportedly declining.

This building, which once housed the Rwandan consul, has been renovated and is used by the College for various graduate studies programs.

Bernard Makuza ( born 30 September 1961 ) is a Rwandan politician who was Prime Minister of Rwanda from 8 March 2000 to 6 October 2011.

Refugee camp for Rwanda ns located in what is now eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo following the Rwandan Genocide.

Peru and Sudan send troops against these " rebel " strongholds, but Peter defends them using Bean and Suriyawong, leading Rwandan and Thai troops, to show that war against one FPE member is war against all of them.

* In his multipart Rwanda Project, executed between 1994 and 2000 in response to the Rwandan genocide, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar sent Rwandan tourist postcards to his friends around the world, mailed from neighboring Uganda, bearing the names of people who he'd encountered while travelling in Rwanda, reversing the self-referential content of On Kawara's work ' I am Still Alive '; " Jyamiya Muhawenimawa is still alive!

As far as large-scale exploitation of this resource is concerned, the Rwandan government has negotiated with a number of parties to produce methane from the lake.

It is a dance that tells the stories of Rwandan heroes and kings, accompanied by instruments like ingoma, ikembe, iningiri, umuduri and inanga.

He is probably today's most recognizable Rwandan male voice. Today Rwandan Music is led by youth and most of them are doing Hip Hop like Riderman he is know in his beautful Rap and writings where he have done a song like Africa Ndota and many more and others RnB like the lovely The Ben very known for his beautiful voice but also still there is some who are trying to do traditional music like Mani Martin and Rwandan Music is always going high.