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Book/Printed Material Constitution de la République Rwandaise

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Title

  • Constitution de la République Rwandaise

Summary

  • This document is the first Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda, proclaimed in November 1962. From 1890 to 1916, Rwanda was part of German East Africa. In 1916, during World War I, it was occupied by Belgian troops from the neighboring Belgian Congo. After the war, it was joined with Burundi to become a Belgian League of Nations mandate, under the name Ruanda-Urundi. On July 1, 1962, the union of Ruanda-Urundi was dissolved and the Republic of Rwanda and the Republic of Burundi became separate, independent states. The leading political party in Rwanda was the Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu (Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement), whose founder, Grégoire Kayibanda (1924-76), served as president of the country from 1962 to 1973. The Belgian colonists drafted the 1962 constitution, with limited participation from the Rwandans themselves. On paper, the constitution provided for a multi-party system and guaranteed human and political rights, but in practice it failed to prevent the spiral of ethnic and political violence that culminated in the tragic genocide of 1994, in which nearly one million Rwandans, mostly from the minority Tutsi group, were killed. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Rwanda

Created / Published

  • Kigali : l'Imprimerie du Rwanda, [1962?]

Headings

  • -  Constitutional law--Rwanda
  • -  Constitutions--Rwanda

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • 37 p.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KTD207.A311962 R83 1962
  • African Section Pamphlet Coll

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008700213

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rwanda. Constitution de la République Rwandaise. [Kigali: l'Imprimerie du Rwanda, ?, 1962] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008700213/.

APA citation style:

Rwanda. (1962) Constitution de la République Rwandaise. [Kigali: l'Imprimerie du Rwanda, ?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008700213/.

MLA citation style:

Rwanda. Constitution de la République Rwandaise. [Kigali: l'Imprimerie du Rwanda, ?, 1962] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008700213/>.