Marcel Gatsinzi is a Rwandan soldier and politician, who is the current Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs. Gatsinzi also served as Rwanda's Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2010. Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs from 2010 to 2013 . An ethnic Rwanda from Butare, Gatsinzi is a former member of the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR), which was the national army prior to the conquest of Rwanda by the RPF following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. At the time of the disbanding of FAR his rank was Colonel.