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Ota Uwiragiye's War In The Rwandan Bush War
The moment Lieutenant Ota Uwiragiye left the house, the vehicle of the Rwandan Army emerged suddenly on the pavement of the street at high speed as though it were running from a herd of beasts. The Hutu soldiers wanted to surprise the enemies, surrounding them until the arrival of military reinforcements However, they did not expect the concomitant presence of the experienced RPF's lieutenant, a man who slept in the woodlands with his face against the barrel of a cocked Kalashnikov. As well as Paul Kagame and Aaron Bitero, Ota Uwiragiye was in the fabled campaign to seize power in the Ugandan Bush War, between 1981 and 1986, fighting for the National Resistance Army against the government of Milton Obote. Furthermore, he was then at war against the Rwandese Government since 1990. Therefore, he had grown accustomed to armed struggles and the horror was an easy way along which he walked. …show more content…
Then, on sensing the figure of the Hutu car suddenly close, he did not wait to see if the noisy shadow growing in front of him was a lion, a giraffe or an angry elephant, because, once turning around, he opened fire on the first differentiated target that his instinct saw on the iron mass coming in his direction. However, he hit the forehead of the soldier with whom he had talked just moments before. The brains of the young man have splashed all over the scene around. In the same time, heavy ammunition shook the jeep, producing an explosion that blew it sky-high and sounded through three city blocks. On hearing the crash and feeling the ground rumbled, the Hutu Charles Musayidire realized that the war had arrived in Kigali and remembered that it was ruthless with the hasty would-be

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