Uzalendo wa Kitanzania
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Mfahamu Jenerali James Kabarebe Kwa Ufupi
• In 1990, Kabarebe became aide-de-camp to Kagame — later becoming Commander of the High Command Unit at Mulindi, and head the Republican Guard.
• In 1996, Kabarebe was in command of Rwanda’s invasion of DR Congo.
In 1997, Kabarebe became Congo’s army chief of staff after the defeat of Mobutu Sese Seko.
• In 1998, Kabarebe led the second invasion of DR Congo after he was dismissed as chief of staff.
• In 2002, Kagame appointed Kabarebe Chief of Defence Staff of the Rwandan Defence Forces.
• In 2010, Kagame appointed Kabarebe Minister of Defence.
In 2010, Kabarebe cited in the United Nations’s Mapping Report on Congo for the genocide of Congolese and Rwandans during the First & Second Congo War, alongside Kagame.
• In 2012, Kabarebe cited by the UN as de facto commander of M23 militia that overrun Goma, DR Congo.
• On October 18, 2018, Kagame dumped Kabarebe to ”senior advisor.”
• Mid-August 2019, Kagame places Kabarebe under house arrest.