Rwanda Liberation Day

Liberation Day also known locally as Kwibohora is a public holiday in Rwanda which is celebrated on 4 July. It commemorates the defeat of the previous Habyarimana regime and the Rwandan Armed Forces by the Rwandan Patriotic Front in the Rwandan Civil War, thus ending the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. On 4 July 1994, the they secured the capital of Kigali while the end of the war only became official on 18 July with the liberation of the north-west territories. Liberation Day takes place a week after Independence Day, although it is more of a celebration rather than the national mourning period for the Rwandan Revolution on Independence Day.