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THE CIVIL WAR
October 1990: The social, economic and political problems which have caused 17 years of dictatorship, bursts in a civil war[S1] [E1][E2][F1][I1][I2][E1]: rebels of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (FPR), a formation born by the communities of Tutsi runned away in Uganda at the beginning of the '60, cross the Uganda frontier, marching toward Kigali[F1][S1][I1][I2][E1].
Habyarimana asks help to France, that sends soldiers and weapons to Kigali: the Tutsi of the Front stop the march on the capital and they occupy the north-oriental part of the country.
1991: the birth of various parties of opposition breaks the monopoly of the unique party, but the old methods of the political struggle, from the intimidation to the physical elimination of the adversary, remain the same.
1992: "The Interahamwe"[I1][I2][E1][S1][F1](a new militias) is born, created by Habyarimana troughs the helping of the colonel Bagosora, who gives dispositions to purchase from China more than 500 thousand machetes.
1993: An extremist radio (RTLM) is created besides for encouraging the new militias "to do well its job": to kill all the Tutsi.
Meanwhile Agathe Uwilingiyimina,an Hutu moderate woman, is elected as Prime Minister: she will be brutally killed in April 1994 by a hit of gun in full face, together with her husband.
4 August 1993: Accord of Arusha, Tanzania. While in the country the civil war rages, conducting in violation of the Conventions in Geneva[I1][F1][E1][S1], the president Juvenal Habyarimana accepts to open a negotiation with the rebels of the FPR and to sign a peace accord: within September 1994 a new government of transition will be constituted and in 1995 in Rwanda it will be free elections.
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