Mulindi is a village in the
Gicumbi District
Gicumbi is a district (''akarere'') in Northern Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Byumba, which is also the provincial capital.
Geography
The district lies due-north of Kigali, straddling the major road from Kigali to Kampala. It is a hilly dis ...
of the
Northern Province, Rwanda
Northern Province (; ; ) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures.
Northern Province comprises most of t ...
.
President
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame ( ; born 23 October 1957) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded ...
led the
Rwandan Patriotic Front
The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi; , FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda.
The RPF was founded in December 1987 by Rwandan Tutsi in exile in Uganda because of the ethnic violence that had occurred during the Rwandan Hutu Revo ...
during the
Rwandan Civil War
The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1October 1990 to 18 July 1994. The war arose ...
from Mulindi. In December 2012 construction of the National Liberation Struggle Museum was started at the site of the Rwandan Patriotic Front headquarters from August 1992 to July 1994.
[{{cite web, url=http://www.gov.rw/National-Liberation-Museum-launched-at-Mulindi , title=National Liberation Museum launched at Mulindi, date=17 December 2012, author=Government of the Republic of Rwanda , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111081040/https://www.gov.rw/National-Liberation-Museum-launched-at-Mulindi , archive-date=11 January 2013]
References
Northern Province, Rwanda