a "master of psychological warfare"....................it is that which is doing the most harm................they have the whole world in some Willie Lynch type of slavery................................on a mass scale.................

Having completed the encirclement of Kigali, the RPF spent the latter half of June fighting for the city itself.^[169] The government forces had superior manpower and weapons, but the RPF nonetheless steadily gained territory as well as conducting raids to rescue civilians from behind enemy lines.^[169] According to Dallaire, this success was due to Kagame's being a "master of psychological warfare";^[169] he exploited the fact that the government forces were concentrating on the genocide rather than the fight for Kigali, and capitalised on the government's loss of morale as it lost territory.^[169] The RPF finally defeated the Rwandan government forces in Kigali on 4 July,^[125] and on 18 July took Gisenyi and the rest of the north west, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.^[126] At the end of July 1994, Kagame's forces held the whole of Rwanda except for the zone in the south west which had been occupied by a French-led United Nations force as part of Opération Turquoise.^[170]

The Liberation Day for Rwanda would come to be marked as July 4 and is commemorated as a public holiday.^[171]