Parmehutu

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Parmehutu

Parmehutu (Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu; French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: "Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement"), also known as MDR-Parmehutu (Mouvement démocratique republicain Parmehutu; French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: "Parmehutu Democratic Republican Movement") is a now-defunct political party of Rwanda

Rwanda

The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
and Burundi

Burundi

Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west....
.

It was founded by Grégoire Kayibanda

Grégoire Kayibanda

Gr?goire Kayibanda was the first elected President of Rwanda. He was born in Tare, Rwanda, and came from the south of the country. He led Rwanda's struggle to become independent from Belgium and replaced the Tutsi monarch with a republic....
as a political party of moderate Hutu

Hutu

The Hutu are a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi....
nationalists who fought for emacipation of the oppressed Hutu majority.

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Parmehutu (Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu; French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: "Parmehutu Democratic Republican Movement") is a now-defunct political party of Rwanda

Rwanda

Burundi

Grégoire Kayibanda

Hutu

The Hutu are a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi....
nationalists who fought for emacipation of the oppressed Hutu majority. Kayibanda overthrew the Tutsi monarchy of Mwami

Mwami

Mwami is the chiefly title in Kirundi language and Kinyarwanda language, the Congolese Nande language and Bashi languages, Luhya in Kenya and various other Bantu languages, such as the Tonga language ....
Kigeri V in 1961, and appointed a government of Hutus.

After independence, in July 1962, Kayibanda became president of Rwanda. In the at the general elections of October 1963, Parmehutu won all seats in the parliament.

In the coup of July 1973, Kayibanda was ousted by his cousin Juvénal Habyarimana

Juvénal Habyarimana

Juv?nal Habyarimana is the former President of Rwanda. He was President of Rwanda from 1973 until he was killed when his airplane, carrying also the President of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down in 1994....
, and the Parmehutu party was dissolved.

Parmehutu

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