List of wars involving Rwanda

This is a list of wars involving Rwanda since its independence from Belgium in 1962.

Conflict Rwanda
and allies		 Opponents Results President
of Rwanda
Rwandan Revolution
(1959–1961)		 Kingdom of Rwanda Parmehutu Regime change
Kigeli V
Inyenzi Invasions
(1961–1967)		 Government of Rwanda
 Belgium		 Inyenzi Government victory
  • Massacre of 10,000 Tutsi civilians[2]
Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan Civil War
(1990–1994)		 Government of Rwanda
 France
 Zaire
Interahamwe
Impuzamugambi		 FPR Regime change
Juvénal Habyarimana
First Congo War
(1996–1997)		 AFDL
Uganda
Rwanda
Burundi
Angola
 Eritrea		  Zaire
ALiR
Interahamwe
UNITA		 Victory
Pasteur Bizimungu
Second Congo War
(1998–2002)[4]		 RCD
RCD-Goma
Banyamulenge
MLC
FFR
UPC
Uganda
 Rwanda
 Burundi
UNITA		 DR Congo
 Angola
 Chad
 Namibia
 Zimbabwe

FDLR
RDR
ALiR
Interahamwe
Mai-Mai

LRA
UNRF II
ADF
FNI
FROLINA
CNDD-FDD		 Stalemate
Paul Kagame
Six-Day War
(2000)		  Rwanda  Uganda Victory
Eastern Congo Offensive
(2009)		  Rwanda
 DR Congo		 FDLR Victory
Dongo Rebellion
(2009)		  Rwanda
 DR Congo		 RPD Victory
Central African Republic Civil War
(2020–)		  Central African Republic
 Rwanda
 Russia		 CPC Ongoing
  • Rwandan intervention in 2020[8]

Notes
  1. Crowder, edited by Michall (1984). The Cambridge history of Africa : volume 8, from c. 1940 to c. 1975 (Repr. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521224098.
  2. Prunier, Gérard (1999). The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (2nd ed.). Kampala: Fountain Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-9970-02-089-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Prunier, p. 4
  4. The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Rwanda withdrew in 2002 following the Pretoria Accord.
  5. http://www.willum.com/dissertation/3rpa.PDF
  6. GETTLEMAN, JEFFREY (20 January 2009). "Congo: Joint Offensive Against a Militia". New York Times. New York Times Company. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  7. DR Congo's armed forces enter troubled Dongo area, Xinhua, 15 December 2009.
  8. Rwanda deploys troops to CAR under bilateral arrangement, The East African, Dec 22, 2020. Accessed Dec 28, 2020.
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