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Attack by RPF in 1990 failed mainly because the French troops and government’s allies in Zaire blocked RPF in Kigali.

==Paul Kagame== rescued RPF from collapse: - consolidated 2000->15000 men - ‘helped the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni take power from the former Ugandan leader Milton Obote in1986’ (Gain support from Uganda)

The regime reacted to the rebel by having massacre in Bagowe in 1991.

==Hutu Power Movement== developed in 1991 December in a meeting in Kigali. - The MRND party formed ==Interahamwe==, which became core of the Hutu Power in 1991. - Military: ==Impuzamugambi== - politics: ==Akazu==

-> infiltrated the government encourage killing of Tusti: ==Network Zero== beliefs: ==Hutu Ten Commandments== -> link to [[RV prac/history/rwanda/themes/Haby policy to civil war|Haby policy to civil war]]

Propaganda

1990 publish of magazine Kangura, counter to RPF Kanguka, became successful under editor ==Hassan Ggeze==. The magazine became the mouthpiece of Hutu power. ‘calling forthe elimination of Tutsi fom all public institutions and an exclusively Hutu leadership over Rwandan institutions and public life’

Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (==RTLM==) - ‘the most successful hate radio in history’ - broadcast anti-Tusti propaganda - tremendous impact on Rwandan: every Rwandan had a radio

-> link to [[RV prac/history/rwanda/themes/Haby policy to civil war|Haby policy to civil war]]

UN and USA’s action

This part need to add according to the book.

UN were poorly equiped.