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by Jarig Bakker, 16 Jan 2002
At this website is the flag of Forces Démocratiques de Liberation de Rwanda - Democratic Liberation Forces
of Rwanda - Urugaga Ruharantra Demokarasi no Kubohoza U Rwanda.
The flag on the homepage has a golden centered circle, but as it is
inspired on the old Rwanda flag I've made it yellow.
Jarig Bakker, 16 Jan 2002
![[FDLR logo]](../images/r/rw})fdlr.gif)
image from this website, reported by
Jarig
Bakker, 16 Jan 2002
![[Mouvement Democratique Rwandais]](../images/r/rw-mdr.gif)
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by Jaume Ollé, 29 Nov 1996
The flag of the Mouvement Democratique Rwandais, the Hutu party that
was responsible for the massacre of Tutsis.
Jaume Ollé, 29 Nov 1996
![[Martyazo Republic]](../images/r/rw_mar72.gif)
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by Željko Heimer, 31 Oct 2001
This was a Hutu republic. The Bahutu revolted in 1972 but were defeated
in west, centre and east. In the south a Republic called Martyazo was established
on 01 May 1972, but it was occupied by the Burundese army (Tutsi) 9 May
1972. The flag was reported to be green with a diagonal stripe from lower
hoist to upper fly.
Jaume Ollé, 23 Mar 1998
The diagonal stripe was red.
Victor Lomantsov , 3 Apr 2001
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Marcus Schmöger, 08 Feb 2007Because of the upcoming presidential election in Rwanda, there was an article
with a picture in the Stockholm edition of the newspaper Metro today. In
the picture, people could be seen with small handheld flags, which were
vertically divided red - white - blue with the letters FPR, one letter
on each field. That was the front side of the flags. The back side had
the colours in reversed order, so that blue was at the hoist, and the letters
were also not mirror imaged.
It is not mirror imaged, which the ordinary flag is if it equals the
reverse.
The reverse of this flag look *the same* as the obverse, i.e. not mirror
imaged, but with the flag pole on the other side, like if the
flag staff had been put on the wrong side. Obverse: red-white-blue
from hoist to fly; reverse: blue-white-red from hoist to fly.
Elias Granqvist, 25 Aug 2003
The ruling party of Rwanda (party of current president Paul Kagame) is the
FPR (Front patriotique rwandais = Rwandan Patriotic Front), which grew out of
the
guerilla war of the early 1990s.
The flag is a red-white-blue vertical tricolour, with the black letters "FPR"
overall.
Marcus Schmöger, 08 Feb 2007
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by Ivan Sache, 12 Sep 2010
The Parti Social Démocrate (PSD) won 7 out of
the 53 seats in the 2008 general elections in Rwanda. In the 2010 presidential
election, the PSD candidate, Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo (b. 1961), Vice
President of the National Assembly, won 5% of the vote against the incumbent
Paul Kagame and was accused by their opponents as being a stooge for the
president.
The PSD website shows the party's flag as vertically divided light
blue-white-green with the blue letters "PSD" in the middle of the white stripe.
The flag is as prescribed in Article 3 of the party's statutes:
"Ingingo ya 3: IBENDERA
Ibendera ry’Ishyaka rigizwe n’amabara atatu ahagaritse ateye atya :
Ku rujishiro habanza ibara ry’ubururu risa n’ijuru;
Hagati hakajya ibara ry’umweru;
Rigakurikirwa n’ibara ry’icyatsi kibisi.
Ayo mabara asobanura:
Ubururu: Gukorera mu mucyo.
Umweru: Amahoro Abanyarwanda bagomba guhora iteka baharanira.
Icyatsi kibisi: Icyizere cy’ubumwe bw’Abanyarwanda baharanira
amajyambere.
Inyuguti P. S. D. zigaragara mu ibara ryera. Zandikishwa ibara
ry’ubururu kandi ku mpande zombi."
Ivan Sache, 12 Sep 2010
