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The Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda (French: Rassemblement Républicain pour la Démocratie au Rwanda (RDR)), also known as the Rassemblement Démocratique pour la Retour (Rally for the Return [of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda]) is an unregistered Rwandan political party. Its stated goal is to establish a democratic and free Rwandan Republic,[1] and its current president is Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.
The Rally for the Return of Refugee and Democracy in Rwanda was formed on April 3, 1995, by a group of Rwandan refugees in Mugunga, the eastern region of the then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The RDR's creation was a response to the outcome of the Rwandan Civil War and the resulting refugee crisis in the African Great Lakes region. By August 1994, over two million Rwandan refugees fled to neighboring African countries and created an extreme humanitarian crisis. Inside Rwanda, the internally displaced population were at risk of famine.[2] Within refugee camps, the presence of former government military personnel and Interahamwe, a Hutu extremist group responsible for the Tutsi genocide, undermined the welfare of civilian refugees, making the humanitarian relief effort vastly complex.
