Rwanda: Kigeli V - the Last Monarch of Rwanda

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Nearly six decades ago in 1959, as a two-year-old toddler was being whisked away to safety following an uprising against his community in Rwanda, a 23-year-old prince assumed the reins of power in an evidently troubled state.

The uprising, referred to as the "social revolution," "the Hutu peasant revolution" or the "wind of destruction" -- known as Muyaga in Kinyarwanda -- ended the dominance of the Tutsi, the majority of whom fled into exile in Uganda and DR Congo where they lived for decades as a stateless Rwandan diaspora.

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