Rwandan Civil WarRwanda · 1990-1994“Listen before the hundred days, because the fire had a fuse before it had a name.”In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front crossed from Uganda into Rwanda. Many of its fighters were children of Tutsi exiles, raised on the memory of homes their families had lost and a state that would not fully let them return.The lesson the elders kept: A civil war can become the corridor through which worse violence arrives. Rwanda teaches that exile, fear and extremist politics can turn a peace process into a target.