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Noun: ALIR
  1. A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again
    "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists";
    - Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: ALIR