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Fred Rwigyema
Fred Rwigyema was a Rwandan Tutsi refugee raised in Uganda who fought with Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army in the Bush War and became deputy army commander and deputy minister of defence of Uganda. As leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front he commanded its invasion of Rwanda from Uganda on 1 October 1990, and was killed on the second day of the campaign.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Fred Rwigyema. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fred-rwigyema
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