The Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) is the national army of Rwanda.
It is the successor to the army of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) which, under leader Paul Kagame, invaded Rwanda in 1994. (In a context prior to 1994, the name "Rwandan Patriotic Army" may also be used to refer to the RPF.) The Rwandese Patriotic Front or Rwandan Patriotic Front, abbreviated as RPF, is the current ruling political party of Rwanda, led by President Paul Kagame. ... Paul Kagame Paul Kagame (born October 23, 1957) is the current President of Rwanda. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
After the successful conquest of the country, Kagame split the RPF into a political division (which retained the RPF name) and a military division, which was to serve as the official army of the Rwandan state. However, critics of Kagame and the RPF contend that the two are only nominally distinct.
The principle thesis of the book revolves around the responsibility of the current Rwandan President Major General Paul Kagame as well as the RwandanPatrioticArmy (RPF) in the Falcon 50 plane crash of kagame’s predecessor Juvenal Habyarimana who met his sinister death in the crash together with his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira.
For his investigative research, the author supports his thesis from the Rwandan Intelligence Service reports, as well as witness testimonies from Kagame’s direct collaborators among them one of Kagame’s former intelligence officers Jean Pierre Mugabe who was in the process of watching television with Kagame on the same evening of the plane crash.
Interrogated about his defence, the author says his main motivations for writing the book was to bring out the truth about the Rwandan genocide by scrutinizing the shadowy zones and the silence of the international community on the Falcon 50 plane crash which even the UN admits was at the origin of the Rwandan genocide.
Although the RPA has detained, summarily executed, or deported some congolese social leaders, the protestation movement is growing out of control and becoming a veritable rebellion.
RPA is now conducting systematic killings mostly in the cities and regions of Rutchuru, Kiwanja, Tongo, Kikanda, Matanda, Mushaki, and Ngungu.
They concur that the RPA is trying to justify its occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo by committing massacres and attributing them to the so-called Interahamwe.
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