University of Lay Adventists of Kigali University of Lay Adventists of Kigali The University of Lay Adventists of Kigali (UNILAK) is a private university owned and operated by the Federation of Adventist Parents Associations for the Development of Education in Rwanda (FAPADER) which is an association of several lay Seventh day Adventist proprietorship secondary school associations that include: UNILAK was approved through the Convention No. 001 of 3 February 1997, which was signed between the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, and FAPADER. The Institution obtained legal identity as a nonprofit association under Rwandan law through the Ministerial Decree No. 89/11 of 2 July 2004 and
Kigali down near Kigali Airport. This was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide, in which 500,000–1,000,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed in well-planned attacks on the orders of the interim government. Opposition politicians based in Kigali were killed on the first day of the genocide, and the city then became the setting for fierce fighting between the army (mostly Hutu) and the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). On 8 April, Rwandan government forces attacked the RPF base in the parliament building from several directions, but RPF troops successfully fought back. The RPF then began an attack from the north