  the rwandan patriotic front (also translated as: rwandese patriotic front; or referred to as: patriotic front of rwanda) abbreviated as rpf (also often referred to as fpr from ) is the current ruling political party of rwanda, led by president paul kagame. it governs in a coalition with other parties. in the parliamentary election held on 30 september 2003, the party won (as part of the ruling coalition) 33 out of 53 seats. paul kagame was also elected as president in the same year. ==background== the rpf was created in 1987 by (paul kagame) the tutsi refugee diaspora in uganda. the first tutsi refugees fled to uganda to escape ethnic purges in the beginning of 1959. these resulted from the "social revolution" of 1959, led by grÃ©goire kayibanda, that overthrew the tutsi-led monarchy, and instability that continued through independence from belgium in 1962. while 50,000 to 70,000 tutsi arrived in the initial refugee influx, periodic ethnic violence resulted in a refugee population of about 200,000 by 1990, though only about 82,000 of these had registered as refugees with the united nations high commissioner for refugees (unhcr). uganda had perhaps the harshest refugee laws in the region. refugees were confined to designated refugee camps and refugee status was transferred between generations: the children born in uganda from refugee parents were themselves considered refugees. however, as the refugee numbers grew the population overflowed the boundaries of the camps set up during the initial refugee crisis. the one benefit of refugee status was that it gave children access to united nations aid, in particular unhcr scholarships, which allowed most young people to escape the camps and find work in urban areas in uganda and abroad. this, along with the resulting success of many tutsi, bred resentment among ugandan nationals, which often manifested as work-place discrimination. during the political crisis of t
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