Question: What was ended by the rebel force commanded by the man elected President of Rwanda in the Rwandan presidential election of 2017?

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Sarath Fonseka: Field Marshal Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP, MP, rcds, psc (Sarath Fonseka) (Sinhalese: ෆීල්ඩ් මාෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා , Tamil: பீல்ட் மார்ஷல் சரத் பொன்சேகா , born 18 December 1950) is a Sri Lanka's highest rank soldier and politician who was the first Sri Lankan Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.  He was the eighteenth Commander of Sri Lankan Army, and under his command the Sri Lankan Army ended the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009, defeating the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; he thereafter briefly served as the Chief of Defence Staff.  After retiring from the Army with the rank of General, he entered politics as the common opposition candidate in the 2010 presidential election contesting against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.  Following his controversial defeat in the presidential election he was elected to Parliament in the general election that followed.  Soon after he was made a political prisoner and lost his parliamentary seat.  Fonseka supported Maithripala Sirisena in the 2015 presidential election and following his victory, the newly appointed President Sirisena gave Fonseka a full pardon reinstating his civic rights, military rank and decorations.  Later he was promoted to the newly created rank of Field Marshal on 22 March 2015.  On 9 February 2016 he was appointed to Parliament, and he was appointed Cabinet Minister for Regional Development on 25 February 2016.

Peter Erlinder: C. Peter Erlinder (born 1948) is an American lawyer, originally from Chicago, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He was Lead Defence Counsel for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and has represented several clients internationally, most notably several Rwandan opposition leaders, including Rwandan Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire.

Rwandan presidential election, 2017: Presidential elections were held in Rwanda on 4 August 2017.  The incumbent President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, was re-elected to a third seven-year term with 98,79% of the vote.

United States presidential election, 1824: The United States presidential election of 1824 was the tenth quadrennial presidential election, held from Tuesday, October 26, to Thursday, December 2, 1824.  John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825.  The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote.  It was also the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded, and the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become President, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

Colombian Civil War (1860–1862): The Colombian Civil War began on May 8, 1860, and lasted until November 1862.  It was an internal conflict between the newly formed conservative Granadine Confederation and a more liberal rebel force from the newly seceded region of Cauca, composed of dissatisfied politicians commanded by General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, its former president.  The Granadine Confederation, created a few years earlier in 1858 by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, was defeated in the capital Bogotá, with Mosquera deposing the newly elected president Bartolomé Calvo on July 18, 1861.  Forming a provisional government, with himself as president, Mosquera continued to pursue the conservative forces until their final defeat in 1862.  The resulting formation of the new United States of Colombia would have significant cultural and economic consequences for Colombia.

Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo: Jean-Damascène Ntawukuriryayo (born 8 August 1961) is a Rwandan politician who served as President of the Senate of Rwanda from 2011 to 2014.  He also served as Minister of Health.  He became President of the Senate in October 2011, and also served for a time as Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies.  Ntawukuriryayo ran for 2010 Rwandan presidential elections, where he failed (getting 5 percent of votes), and Paul Kagame was re-elected with more than 90% of votes.

Finnish presidential election, 1931: Two-stage presidential elections were held in Finland in 1931.  On 15 and 16 January the public elected presidential electors to an electoral college.  They in turn elected the President.  The result was a victory for Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who won on the third ballot by just two votes.  The turnout for the popular vote was 47.3%.  This presidential election was held during an ideologically, politically, socially and economically tense time.  The Great Depression was impoverishing many Finnish farmers and workers.  The far-right Lapua Movement had not settled for the ban of the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations in the autumn of 1930.  It wanted to help elect a President who would also strongly oppose the Social Democrats and moderate bourgeois parties, such as the Progressives.  Although Svinhufvud disapproved of the Lapua Movement's violent kidnappings of left-wing politicians and other illegal acts, he was their preferred presidential candidate.  Former President K.J. Ståhlberg, a champion of democracy, parliamentarism and the rule of law, had been briefly kidnapped by some activists of the Lapua Movement with his wife in October 1930.  He was chosen as the Progressive presidential candidate.  Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, Kyösti Kallio, held ideals similar to those of Ståhlberg, and he became the Agrarian presidential candidate.  The outgoing President, Lauri Kristian Relander, had lost the Agrarian presidential candidacy to Kallio, because he did not condemn the Lapua Movement as strongly as Kallio did, and a sufficient number of Agrarians believed that Kallio could control the Lapua Movement's extremists more effectively than Relander.  Right-wing Finns and some centrists, such as a prominent Agrarian parliamentarian, Juho Niukkanen, were concerned that Ståhlberg's re-election (after a six-year break) as the Finnish President would escalate political tensions in Finland.  The Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Guards (a bourgeois voluntary defence organization), Major General Lauri Malmberg, announced in the Finnish Parliament that he would not guarantee order among the Civil Guards, if Ståhlberg was elected President.  Svinhufvud's razor-thin victory required Niukkanen's arm-twisting tactics, whereby he pressured all the Agrarian presidential electors to support Svinhufvud.  This 69-year-old and slightly ailing conservative politician was considered by his supporters as a sufficiently bold, solid and patriotic man to re-unite the ideologically divided Finns.  His pro-democracy supporters hoped that he could keep both right-wing extremists and left-wing extremists in check (see, for example, Sakari Virkkunen, Finland's Presidents I / Suomen presidentit I. Helsinki: Otava Ltd., 1994, pgs.  242-245 (Relander), pgs.  11-14 (Svinhufvud); Pentti Virrankoski, A History of Finland / Suomen historia, volumes 1&2.  Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society / Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, 2009, pgs.  810-816; Raimo Salokangas, "The Independent Republic" (Itsenäinen tasavalta), pgs.  635-639 in Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen.  Helsinki: WSOY, 2003).

Paul Kagame: Paul Kagame ( ; born 23 October 1957) is the current President of Rwanda having taken office in 2000 when his predecessor, Pasteur Bizimungu, resigned.  Kagame previously commanded the rebel force that ended the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.  He was considered Rwanda's "de facto" leader when he served as Vice President and Minister of Defence from 1994 to 2000.

Diane Rwigara: Diane Shima Rwigara is a Rwandan businesswoman and women's rights activist who stood as an independent candidate in the Rwandan presidential election, 2017.

Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict in the African republic of Rwanda, between the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).  The war was fought in two phases.  The first phase began on 1 October 1990, with an RPF invasion of the north east of the country from Uganda.  This phase ended on 4 August 1993, with the signing of the Arusha Accords.  The second phase took place following the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994, and the outbreak of the Rwandan genocide.  The RPF resumed fighting on 7 April, and the civil war ended with an RPF victory on 18 July 1994.

Supporting paragraphs: Rwandan presidential election, 2017 Paul Kagame
Answer: 1994 Rwandan Genocide