{"id":35187,"date":"2017-06-16T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/discipline-won-the-liberation-struggle-gen\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T13:26:36","slug":"discipline-won-the-liberation-struggle-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/discipline-won-the-liberation-struggle-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline won the liberation struggle \u2013Gen Kabarebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Defense, Gen James Kabarebe has said that moral values, the spirit patriotism, high discipline, persistence, and commitment to goals and same vision gave RPA soldiers strength to win the liberation struggle and stop genocide despite the bitter experiences. }  <\/p>\n<p>Kabarebe made the observation  yesterday during the launch of one month civic education bringing together Rwandan youth studying abroad \u2018Indangamirwa\u2019 held in Rwanda Defense Force\u2019s Gabiro Combat Training Center in Gatsibo district, Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that visionary leadership helped defeat state\u2019s military backed by foreign support including Zaire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we began the liberation struggle in 1990, the  former Zaire president, Mobutu sent military support of \u2018special division (commando)\u2019. They evicted us from this position in Gabiro and withdrew into the park. We later reorganized and returned. We fiercely fought Zaire soldiers. Some of them lost lives here while others ran away. They robbed , crossed Rwamagana, Kigali, Gisenyi robbing until they reached Goma,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe defeated them despite having small weapons. We had Paul Kagame as the only military expert from United States military academy. Our skills were below soldiers of Habyarimana who had attended \u2018Ecole de Guerres\u2019 (schools of war) in Belgium, France among others. They had advanced military education but we too outperformed them in terms of having constant moral values including farsighted leadership because having Paul Kagame as commander of the struggle brought apparent difference. He contributed 90% to winning the struggle,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Gen Kabarebe said discipline was the greatest weapon to defeat the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>RPF liberation struggle which began in 1990 ended in 1994 after stopping genocide. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20833 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/itorero8-5-90404.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Defense, Gen James Kabarebe addressing &#039;Indangamirwa&#039;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Defense, Gen James Kabarebe has said that moral values, the spirit patriotism, high discipline, persistence, and commitment to goals and same vision gave RPA soldiers strength to win the liberation struggle and stop genocide despite the bitter experiences. } Kabarebe made the observation yesterday during the launch of one month civic education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}