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n. - A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again.

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  • In 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists
  • The slaughter was carried out by the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR), made up of the Ex-FAR and Interahamwe militia responsible for the 1994 genocide.
  • Itangayenda revealed that the ALIR forces, which make up the bulk of Rwandan Hutu rebels, had been weakened by military operations carried out by the Rwandan army in...
  • The officer, Major Frederic Itangayenda, was in charge of coordinating ALIR - the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda - rebel activities in Congo's Virunga Park, near the...
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