The National Intelligence and Security Agency is a

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

n security and intelligence agency created in 1994 by the

Republic of Rwanda A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public (people), typically through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy. Although a ...

following the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ...

Creation

The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISS) of Rwanda was created in 1994 by 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 ...

after it took power following the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.

Aims

The initial aim of NISS was to monitor dissidents supportive of the previous government and suspected perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. By around 2019, NISS had both internal and external security aims and a role in monitoring immigration.

Presence

, in addition to its presence in Rwanda, NISS was present in Eastern Africa, Belgium and the United States.

Human rights violations

In 2011, according to

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

and the Rwandan League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, NISS was responsible for

forced disappearance An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a State (polity), state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the i ...

References

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