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Rwandan Civil War

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The Rwandan Civil War was fought from 1990 to 1994 between the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel force made up largely of Tutsi exiles who had fled earlier waves of ethnic violence and organized in neighboring Uganda, and the Hutu-led government of President Juvenal Habyarimana. The Arusha Accords of 1993 established a fragile power-sharing framework and briefly paused the fighting, but the war reignited catastrophically after Habyarimana's plane was shot down on 6 April 1994, an event that triggered the Rwandan genocide, in which extremist Hutu militias and elements of the government killed roughly eight hundred thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu over the course of about one hundred days. The Rwandan Patriotic Front, resuming its military offensive during the genocide, advanced across the country and captured the capital Kigali in July 1994, ending both the genocide and the civil war with a decisive rebel military victory. The new government formed afterward, eventually led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front commander Paul Kagame, has governed Rwanda since.

Facts
Start Year
1990 1
End Year
1994 1
Combatants
Rwandan Armed Forces (Third Rwandese Republic) against the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) 1
Outcome
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) victory 1
Classification
Conflict Type
Civil War 1
Rwandan Civil War
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Rwandan Civil War

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Milkor MGL

Rwandan Civil War

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Vektor R4

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Colt Canada C7, Weapons Systems
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Panhard AML, Weapons Systems
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T-72, Weapons Systems
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Vektor R4, Weapons Systems
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Zastava M70 Assault Rifle, Weapons Systems
Source Wikipedia: Zastava M70 (assault rifle)
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1. Rwandan Civil War (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, start-date clause
    The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the incumbent Third Rwandese Republic, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, end-date clause
    The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the incumbent Third Rwandese Republic, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, combatants clause
    fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the incumbent Third Rwandese Republic, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
  • Infobox, Result field
    Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) victory
  • Lead text
    The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the incumbent Third Rwandese Republic, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994.
  • Conflict-type attribute (rwandan-civil-war)
    The Rwandan Civil War was fought from 1990 to 1994 between the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a rebel force made up largely of Tutsi exiles who had fled earlier waves of ethnic violence and organized in neighboring Uganda, and the Hutu-led government of President Juvenal Habyarimana.
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Wikipedia: T-72
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Wikipedia: DShK
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Wikipedia: Zastava M70 (assault rifle)
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Wikipedia: Vektor R4
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Wikipedia: Colt Canada C7
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Wikipedia: Panhard AML
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Wikipedia: M2 Browning
WikipediaUses: M2 Browning Machine Gun, Infobox: wars
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Wikipedia: Milkor MGL
Uses: Milkor MGL, Infobox: wars
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