Understanding the event

The democratic opposition, in favour of power-sharing, is divided into four distinct groups. Main protest figure, the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR), founded by Grégoire Kayibanda at the end of the 1950s, split in October 1993 into an extremist movement that recognizes itself under the banner of 'Hutu Power' and a moderate wing, favorable to power sharing with the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
An important actor, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a transnational party including both descendants of Tutsi exiles in Uganda and Hutu dissidents, includes a military branch, the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which began in 1990 to overthrow the authoritarian regime.
With the opening of the political game in 1991, other parties were created such as the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Liberal Party (PL).