4.2.2. Ifumba ry'ubufindo
The title of the book ``Ifumba ry'ubufindo'' in
kinyarwanda can be translated in English as ``Ambiguous adventure''.
In April 1994, the Government of Rwanda in place at that time,
considering that it was about to lose the war, started killing innocent people
accused of complicity with RPF: The genocide against Tutsi. This genocide
prepared by Hutu extremists entailed the death approximately of one million of
people. Fortunately, RPA stopped genocide and ousted the government in July
1994.
In this book, an officer from the regular army was accused
wrongly of complicity with RPF. So, his family has been slaughtered as he was
on the battlefield against the rebellion.
Meanwhile, among the rebellion, there were commandos assigned
the mission to lead operations behind enemy's lines with the objective to stop
genocide and defeat killers. On the battlefield, the situation was
catastrophic: The failure for governmental army in front of the danger obliged
it to withdraw in stampedes. The book ends with the victory of RPF-INKOTANYI.
4.2.3. Umuti utazwi
The title of the book ``Umuti utazwi'' in kinyarwanda
can be translated in English as ``Mysterious resolution''.
Just after the liberation struggle there was another war
inside the country. This war had the main objective to annihilate terrorists
and other individuals who attempted to destabilize the country.
In this book, a demobilized sergeant from the defeated army
was acting as troublemaker in his region in spite of the presence of the local
police and other secret agents from security services. Then, the
commander-in-chief who plans the worse to be able to cope with, assigned one of
his better officers the mission of annihilation ('seek and destroy' operation).
Unfortunately, that operation had difficulty to accomplish its mission because
it underestimated the enemy's strength.
4.2.4. Akaga mu Bukonya
The title of the book ``Akaga mu Bukonya'' in
kinyarwanda can be translated in English like ``War disasters in Bukonya''.
Between 1995 and 1999, a number of soldiers from the defeated
army who had taken refuge in former Zaïre, actually Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) came back in Rwanda and launched the war by means of infiltration,
called the devastating guerrilla warfare. There were intense fights and the
population from the Northwestern region of Rwanda paid the price atrociously.
There were enormous human and material damages.
In this book, the main character were taking a well deserved
rest in one of his residence in the region of Bukonya and the war surprised him
without means to intervene and shared the suffering with the local population.
This mountainous area almost isolated had become a safe heaven for rebels, then
RPA launched large operations to defeat them.
The rebels' strategic adventurism caused desolation within the
population. The two sides have used small and heavy weapons, but the RPA (the
present RDF) had the monopoly on more sophisticated weapons, such as armored
vehicles and fighting helicopters among others.
This war showed that the capacity of an army depends not only
on the value of fighters, but also on the commanders' ability to coordinate
their efforts.
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