Raison d'Etat Unleashed: Understanding Rwanda's Foreign Policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Strategic Insights: v.4, issue 7 (July 2005)
Abstract
In October 1990, when a guerrilla force composed mainly of exiled Rwandan Tutsis calling itself the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded Rwanda from bases in southern Uganda with the intent of overthrowing the existing, Hutu-dominated regime in Kigali (the Rwandan capital), few observers could have predicted the transformative effects the ensuing RPF victory would have on the security milieu of Africa’s Great Lakes region.
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This article appeared in Strategic Insights (July 2005), v.4 no.7