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{{Infobox political party
| name = Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda
| native_name = Rassemblement Républicain pour la Démocratie au Rwanda
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| president = [[Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza]]
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| slogan = "A reconciled people in a rule of law."
| founded = 3 April 1995
| ideology = [[Liberal democracy]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2013}}
| national = [[United Democratic Forces of Rwanda]]
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| state = Rwanda
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The '''Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda''' ({{langx|fr|'''Rassemblement Républicain pour la Démocratie au Rwanda (RDR)'''}}), also known as the {{lang|fr|'''Rassemblement Démocratique pour la Retour'''}} (''Rally for the Return [of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda]'') is an unregistered Rwandan [[political party]].  Its stated goal is to establish a democratic and free Rwandan Republic,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Denying genocide: the Rwanda plan |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/denying-genocide-rwanda-plan/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=openDemocracy |language=en}}</ref> and its current president is [[Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza]].

==History==
The Rally for the Return of Refugee and Democracy in [[Rwanda]] was formed on April 3, 1995, by a group of Rwandan refugees in Mugunga, the eastern region of the then [[Zaire]], now the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]].

The RDR's creation was a response to the outcome of the [[Rwandan Civil War]] and the resulting [[Great Lakes refugee crisis|refugee crisis]] in the [[African Great Lakes]] region. By August 1994, over two million Rwandan refugees fled to neighboring African countries and created an extreme [[humanitarian crisis]]. Inside Rwanda, the [[Internally displaced persons|internally displaced population]] were at risk of famine.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sperling |first=Louise |date=January 1997 |title=The Effects of the Rwandan War on Crop Production and Varietal Diversity: A Comparison of Two Crops |url=https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/4638/The%20Effects%20of%20the%20Rwandan%20War%20on%20Crop%20Production%20and%20Varietal%20Diversity.pdf?sequence=1 |journal=}}</ref> Within refugee camps, the presence of former government military personnel and [[Interahamwe]], a Hutu extremist group responsible for the Tutsi genocide, undermined the welfare of civilian refugees, making the [[humanitarian relief]] effort vastly complex.

==Criticism==
In ''[[We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families]]'', author [[Philip Gourevitch]] claimed that the RDR, founded in the refugee camps of exiled [[Hutu]]s in Zaire after the 1994 [[Rwandan genocide]], is a shadow organization effectively run by former [[Rwandan Armed Forces]] (FAR) commanders and genocidaires. He criticized Western aid workers, who regarded the RDR as a moderate and legitimate organization, as naive and ill-informed. [[René Lemarchand]] criticized the book for its lack of scholarly credentials.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lemarchand |first=René |title=The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa |publisher=Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0812241204 |pages= |language=}}</ref>

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