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Juvenal Habyarimana

Date of Birth: 8 March 1937
Place of Birth: Gisenyi, Rwanda
Died: 6 April 1994


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Death in the canal

The indictment says that his position in the late President Juvénal Habyarimana's Mouvement Républicain National pour la Démocratie et le Développement gave him 'effective control of the militia of the MRND known as the Interahamwé' in Gisenyi Prefecture...


Cross to bear

Some Tutsi blame the Catholic Church and SMA for not having opposed the late President Juvénal Habyarimana's regime enough; then Archbishop Vincent Nsengiyumva belonged to the ruling party and some clergy helped génocidaires...


Death by plane

Other prominent crash victims include Mozambican President Samora Machel in 1986 and Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian Premier Cyprien Ntaryamira shot down in 1994 triggering Rwanda's genocide...


Militant diplomacy

A month previously he had testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha Tanzania against Colonel Aloys Simba an associate of President Juvénal Habyarimana whose murder sparked the slaughter of 1994...


On trial for genocide

It started last month with Stephen Smith's article in the Paris daily Le Monde commenting on a report by France's anti-terrorist police claiming that soldiers from the Front Patriotique Rwandais under General Paul Kagame's command shot down the jet carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 (AC Vol 45 No 6)...


Who fired the missiles?

A week earlier the Paris daily Le Monde had suggested that Kagame and his Front Patriotique Rwandais were involved in shooting down Rwanda's late President Juvénal Habyarimana and his Burundian opposite number Cyprien Ntaryamira...


Finally, an election

The presidential poll will be the first since 1988 when Juvénal Habyarimana was the sole candidate...


Accords and aggravations

An estimated 15 000 Rwandan fighters (loyalists of the ousted Juvénal Habyarimana government and new recruits) will try to hold on to bases mainly in North and South Kivu provinces...


Leaving the quagmire

Firstly a French court dismissed a defamation suit backed by Kagame against Cameroonian journalist Charles Onana who claimed the Rwandan leader had organised the shooting down of the late President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane on 6 April 1994 thus precipitating the genocide...


Anti-Kagame alliance

Launched in Brussels on 5 April the Alliance pour la Démocratie et la Réconciliation Nationale is coordinated by Valens Kajeguhakwa a Tutsi in his sixties who owned fuel distribution company ERP under the late President Juvénal Habyarimana but fell out with the ruling Akazu clan in the early 1990s...


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