What key details about paul kagame can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: paul kagame -lrb- ; born 23 october 1957 -rrb- is the sixth and 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 . kagame was born to a tutsi family in southern rwanda . when he was two years old , the rwandan revolution ended centuries of tutsi political dominance ; his family fled to uganda , where he spent the rest of his childhood . in the 1980s , kagame fought in yoweri museveni 's rebel army , becoming a senior ugandan army officer after museveni 's military victories carried him to the ugandan presidency . kagame joined the rwandan patriotic front -lrb- rpf -rrb- , which invaded rwanda in 1990 ; leader fred rwigyema died early in the war and kagame took control . by 1993 , the rpf controlled significant territory in rwanda and a ceasefire was negotiated . the assassination of rwandan president juvenal habyarimana was the starting point of the genocide , in which hutu extremists killed an estimated 500,000 to one million tutsi and moderate hutu . kagame resumed the civil war , and ended the genocide with a military victory . during his vice presidency , kagame controlled the national army and maintained law and order , while other officials began rebuilding the country . many rpf soldiers carried out retribution killings ; it is disputed whether kagame organised these , or was powerless to stop them . hutu refugee camps formed in zaire and other countries , which were controlled by the genocidaires -lrb- participants in the genocide -rrb- and threatened rwanda 's security . the rpf attacked and disbanded the camps in 1996 , forcing many refugees to return home , but insurgents continued to attack rwanda . as part of the counterinsurgency , kagame sponsored two controversial rebel wars in zaire . the rwandan - and ugandan-backed rebels won the...
- alt is paul 28 , 2014 . kagame in busan , south korea , october- caption is kagame october 2014 . visiting the south korean city of busan in- party is rwandan patriotic front- spouse is jeannette nyiramongi- primeminister is bernard makuza pierre habumuremyi anastase murekezi- office is president of rwanda- predecessor is pasteur bizimungu- children is ivan cyomoro ange ian brian- term start is 24 22 april 2000 march 2000 acting : 24 march 2000 --- birth date is 23 october 1957- name is paul kagame- image is president . jpg paul kagama -lrb- portrait -rrb- -lrb- cropped -rrb-- birth place is tambwe , ruanda-urundi -lrb- now nyarutovu , rwanda -rrb-- religion is roman catholicism