Human Rights in Rwanda

The force that once saved Rwanda has resorted to abuses of its own while the rest of the world looks away again. In taking action against the League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights (Liprodhor), the Rwandan Patriotic Front is suppressing the work of individuals fighting to protect human rights.
From: The Observer

The Rwandan government should reject a request to dissolve one of the country’s leading human rights groups which has been unfairly accused by a parliamentary commission of harboring genocidal ideas, says Human Rights Watch.
From: Human Rights Watch

The Rwandan government, dominated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), demonstrated continuing hostility towards political dissent, press freedom, and an independent civil society as it moved towards a new constitution and national elections in 2003.

A Human Rights Watch report has indicated that the practice of recruiting children as young as 15 into the Rwandese Defence Forces had stopped, although some children remained in the army in 2003.