Very happy, very proud, apart from the loss of many lives, which can never be corrected, or we can’t do much about it. It’s probably the most expensive part of the struggle. But to have won the war and won the peace for ourselves, because if you look at those years of the war, of the genocide, and they are brought to an end, and then we started building and rebuilding and a sense of reconciliation, a sense of allowing Rwandans to live together as a nation. And now a proud people of Rwanda, and socially made progress politically, significant progress, economically the same. I think we could not have asked for more.
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Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda since 2000
Rwanda · b. 1957
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Commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, whose advance ended the 1994 genocide. Vice-president and defence minister from 1994 and president of Rwanda since 2000.
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