France which earned much opprobrium for backing President Juvénal Habyarimana's Hutu-dominated government in Rwanda (and the remnants of its army during the genocide in 1994) was first to give Buyoya de facto recognition...
Now led by Etienne Karatasi from his Danish exile Palipehutu' s programme like that of Rwanda' s Mouvement Républicain National pour la Démocratie et le Développement of the late President Juvénal Habyarimana is to establish ethnic quotas based on an unreliable Belgian census of the 1930s...
Certainly Unar's stern statement in May marks the end of the alliance which opposed President Juvénal Habyarimana's regime...
Vol 37 No 9 |
- GREAT LAKES
In Zaïre's North Kivu province – accessible only by air from Kinshasa – Rwandan Hutu militiamen loyal to the late President Juvénal Habyarimana are still determined to create a base for incursions into their own country...
And the UN Secretariat and Security Council which say the authors 'had a formal responsibility for implementing the Arusha peace accords' (negotiated between the late President Juvénal Habyarimana's government and the Front Patriotique Rwandais) were aware of the planned massacres...
Most importantly these criticisms do not just come from loyalists to the former government and Western aid workers but also from political groupings which made up the civilian Opposition to President Juvénal Habyarimana...
