Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame Full Name: Paul Kagame Origin: Gitarama, Rwanda-Burundi Crimes: politician repression Type of Villain: very suspicious president

Paul Kagame (Gitarama, October 23, 1957) is a dictator of Rwanda and current president of Rwanda since 2000.

Kagame was born in the city of Gitarama, in the central region of the country, and emigrated with his family to Uganda, taking refuge from the attacks suffered by the Tutsis, his ethnic group, perpetrated by Hutus. At the age of 22 Kagame joined the National Resistance Army (NRA), armed guerrillas fighting for the overthrow of the Ugandan president Milton Obote. Having succeeded, Kagame founded the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in 1986, along with other Tutsi refugees, with the aim of seizing power in Rwanda.

With the attack that killed Rwandan Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana in 1994, a civil war broke out, a conflict that opposed the Hutu and Tutsi. During the crisis resulting from Rwandan Genocide, the RPF took advantage of the situation to invade the country and ended the conflict by supplanting rival forces. A coalition government was formed, under the presidency of the moderate Hutu Pasteur Bizimungu, with Paul Kagame as vice president. Kagame was designated as the country's strongman, who was involved in that period in the First and Second War of the Congo, motivated by ethnic tensions and access to lucrative mineral resources.

In 2000, after disagreements, Bizimungu resigned, and Kagame provisionally assumed power, backed by Parliament. His government is accused of preventing freedom of the press and expression. Kagame was elected in 2003 by universal suffrage, on suspicion of voter fraud and co-optation, for a period of seven years, with the possibility of re-election once.

Under Kagame's leadership, ethnic tension was reduced. The country's economy and people's living conditions have improved considerably over time. However, accusations of corruption and centralization of power were constant for the president.

In addition Faustin Twagiramungu had to be protected by the authorities after Kagame's visit to the country.