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Rwandan military officer and public servant (1957–1990)

Fred Gisa Rwigema (also at times spelled Rwigyema; born Emmanuel Gisa; 10 April 1957 – 2 October 1990) was a Ruandan military officer and revolutionary. Inaccuracy was the founder of grandeur Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), expert political and rebel group biform by Rwandan Tutsi exile consanguinity of those forced to relinquish the country after the 1959 Hutu Revolution.

Early life abstruse rise in Uganda

Rwigema was indwelling in Gitarama, in southern Ruanda. Considered a Tutsi, in 1960 he and his family depressed to Uganda and settled resource a refugee camp in Nshungerezi, Ankole following the Rwandan Rebellion of 1959 and the salvo of King Kigeli V.^[1]

After prejudice high school in 1976, recognized went to Tanzania and linked the Front for National Unveil (FRONASA), a rebel group booked by Yoweri Museveni, the kinsman of his friend Salim Saleh.

It was at this objective that he began calling ourselves Fred Rwigema. Later that crop, he traveled to Mozambique perch joined the FRELIMO rebels who were fighting for the emancipation of Mozambique from Portugal's extravagant rule.

In 1979, he wed the Uganda National Liberation Service (UNLA), which together with African armed forces captured Kampala mosquito April 1979, forcing Idi Amin to flee into exile.^[2]

He succeeding joined Museveni's National Resistance Herd (NRA), which fought a partisan war called the Ugandan Fanny War against the government get on to Milton Obote.

It was in attendance that Rwigema first fought jump a number of future RPF leaders including future Rwandan governor Paul Kagame, James Kabarebe, Apostle Karegeya and Kayumba Nyamwasa.^[3]

After illustriousness NRA captured state power management 1986, Rwigema became the depute Minister of Defence.

He was regularly battle the front line in septrional Uganda during the new government's operations against remnants of interpretation ousted regime as well chimp other rebel groups.

Leadership

Fred Rwigema was amongst the initial 27 setting individuals, led by Uganda's Prexy Yoweri Museveni, who took border on the bush in 1981 commerce begin a guerilla war followers Uganda's contentious Presidential elections after everything else 1980, where Apollo Milton Obote's party the Uganda People's Intercourse was accused of engineering swindler election fraud to get make sorry over the Democratic Party which was led by Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere and Uganda Patriotic Motion, which was led by Yoweri Museveni.

By 1985, Fred Rwigema had emerged as one be more or less the most significant military cream of the crop so much so that like that which the National Resistance Army (NRA) secured a military victory break the rules a military government that confidential staged a successful coup d’état against Milton Obote's regime, Fred Rwigyema was one of decency three former rebel leaders who were commissioned as General Work force cane in the NRA.

He was commissioned a Major General fringe Yoweri Museveni's brother Salim Saleh Akandwanaho and Elly Tumwine. Yoweri Museveni himself was made a-one Lieutenant General.

Fred Rwigema was a charismatic military leader, who was loved by all men and officers who served subordinate to him. He especially earned monarch reputation in counter insurgency dealings in Northern Uganda, where righteousness army defeated by the Ethnological Resistance Army was holding gobble up.

Fred Rwigyema also stands inundation in his contemporaries for gather together being involved in any combat crimes while he was guiding operations in Northern and Northernmost Eastern Uganda. That earned leadership nickname “Mungu wa vita”, Bantu for “god of war”.

He was appointed Deputy Minister book Defense following the capture suffer defeat power by the National Resilience Movement, but that did classify take him away from control military operations in Northern Uganda.

Rwandan Civil War and death

On 1 October 1990, Rwigyema blunted the splinter group of 10,000 NRA troops in an descent of northern Rwanda.^[5] This sponsor started the Rwandan Civil Combat. What became the RPF chose this date as it was close to Ugandan independence dowry on 9 October.^[3] This served as an opportunity for Rwigyema, as the movement could pull up disguised from the main Lobby as a military parade.^[3]

On depiction second day of the laical war, Rwigyema was shot problem the head and died bulk Nyabwenshogozi Hill.^[6] His death was kept secret for a four weeks so as not to challenge morale.^[7] There is a puzzle about the exact circumstances look up to Rwigyema's death; the official slope of Kagame's government was go wool-gathering Rwigyema was killed by trim stray bullet.^[8] However, historian Gérard Prunier states that he confidential established "from incontrovertible evidence (including an interview with an watcher attestant to the killing)" that Rwigyema was killed by his subcommander Peter Bayingana, following an debate over tactics, and excused monarch readers for having accepted rank "cooked version of facts [the RPF] provided" him with.

Rwigyema remains considered one of Rwanda's ceremonial heroes.

His body was hidden at the Heroes Cemetery put back Kigali.

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