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Do you exercise a lot? In fact, later on, so many years after, in my position of responsibility, my country is one that treats refugees from other countries — we have many of them, from Burundi, from the DRC, that’s Congo, from different parts — we try as much to treat them very fairly.

kagame paul biography bible

So to the West I would say, “No. And how do we allow this to happen without actually contradicting now some of the things people talk about out of context? In fact, it does serve as a very good channel of communication. What should I say? So every aspect of life was complicated.

What was your first job? Does this matter to anyone, to any observer from outside, so that they are able to put all this in a context and therefore see this as a result of that?

I’m so bothered about what matters to lives in our country, of our people. Therefore the short thing for Rwanda’s future starts with investing in our people, and that is education, and then we mind their health. His work offers lessons on rebuilding after loss. If it’s an idea, you put it there, and hundreds of thousands of people pick it straight that same moment, and so whatever it is that you find you have identified that would be solved well by that, and there are many, then that’s it.

You have a million-and-a-half followers right now, and growing — more than any leader in the continent.

Paul Kagame: Now 1.7, actually.

Despite obvious personal tensions he decided to focus on victory, which the RPF achieved and on July 19, 1994, the Hutu Pasteur Bizimungu was sworn-in as president of the new Government of National Unity and Kagame became vice-president, commander in chief of the RPA and minister of defence.

Kagame and Post-Genocide Rwanda

Kagame and the new government faced a range of vast obstacles from mid-1994, including how to reduce Hutu-Tutsi tensions, how to rebuild an already under-developed economy, and how to bring the many thousands of Hutu involved in the genocide to justice.

So I went there and did the exams, and I was actually one of the few who passed the exams from so many. So it’s like whatever idea you have, you communicate it, or you see what others are communicating, so that you pick it and maybe use it for whatever good effect.

One time — I think he is a journalist or something from the UK — tweeted something about me, and I thought — and it actually turned out to be — it was a distortion about me, about my country, about who I am, and so on.

That was around ‘61. The RPF’s invasion sparked a brutal civil war, culminating in the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. And so I left, knowing that at a certain point when it starts, I wasn’t sure of the date — because even others they left behind weren’t sure they were to act on it — which would be the best timing.

Camps shifted. As one RPF leader put it: "If the NRM could liberate Uganda, the RPF began to ask why it could not do the same in Rwanda," as quoted in Mahmood Mamdani's When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. That was the reason in my mind.