Third Rwandan Republic

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The Third Rwandan Republic, also referred to as the Third Rwandese Republic or the Hutu Power regime, was the government of Rwanda enacting the Rwandan genocide during the Rwandan Civil War. It was led by Théoneste Bagosora, Théodore Sindikubwabo, and Jean Kambanda and espoused the supremacist ideology of Hutu Power. Hutu Power and the Third Rwandan Republic have often been compared to Nazism and the Third Reich due to their shared extreme destructiveness. The Civil War arose from the long-running dispute between the Hutu and Tutsi groups within the Rwandan population. The Rwandan Revolution, which broke out in 1959, had replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a Hutu-led republic, forcing more than 336,000 Tutsis to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. A group of these refugees in Uganda founded the RPF which, under the leadership of Fred Rwigyema and Paul Kagame, became a battle-ready army by the late 1980s and would become the main military opponent of the third republic. The war began on...

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