Glossary and supplements for the Rwandan Genocide - Definition and Overview

People

Political parties

• CDR: Coalition pour la défense de la république (Coalition for the Defense of the Republic)

• FPR: Front patriotique rwandais (Rwandan Patriotic Front)

• MDR: Mouvement démocratique républicain (Republican Democratic Movement)

• MRND: Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour la démocratie et le développement (National Revolutionary Movement for Democracy and Development)

• Page on the Rwandan politcal parties from the French parliamentary mission (http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/dossiers/rwanda/partis2.asp)

Places

• Kigali : Capital of Rwanda

Events

• Arusha accords : Denomination of the peace process, which took place from 1992 to 1993 between the Rwandan state, the FPR, the MRND, and the MDR. The process was characterised by meetings and finally the signing of a peace accord in August 1993 in Arusha in Tanzania.