Word: bizimungu
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...refugee to guerrilla leader to civilian president. Like other African strongmen, human rights groups have accused him of abuse of power, particularly for slow progress on human rights and for, they say, using the 1994 genocide as an excuse to repress the opposition. But since he deposed President Pasteur Bizimungu and assumed the presidency in 2000 and was formally elected in 2003, Kagame's government has also racked up impressive successes. It shows no tolerance for corruption, it has been hailed for its success in fighting HIV and AIDS and is one of the first in Africa to tackle overpopulation...
...SENTENCED. PASTEUR BIZIMUNGU, 54, Rwanda's first President after the 1994 genocide; to 15 years in jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
RWANDA Past Tense Police arrested former President Pasteur Bizimungu and said he would face charges of illegal political activity and threats to state security. Bizimungu headed the first government of national unity after the 1994 genocide. He resigned two years ago over policy differences and set up his own political party, which was immediately banned. Police also detained former Public Works Minister Charles Ntakirutinka after seizing documents from his home...
...there any task left to be performed by 14,000 heavily armed troops? Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu said he did not believe military intervention was necessary any longer, and he relayed that view to the U.N. Security Council--which voted to authorize the mission anyway. Canada still planned to go. But Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital...
...Bizimungu knows time is on his side as long as food donations keep pouring in. Though individual agencies may continue to withdraw, aid workers note that short of stopping relief altogether, their hands are tied. Many recall Cambodia in the late 1970s, when foreign food assistance to refugees on the Thai border enabled the defeated Khmer Rouge to live and fight another day. Rwandans who have already suffered a holocaust now face a choice between starvation or the resumption...