Word: habyarimana
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...TIME: You have an ambivalence towards the international community. Kagame: Look at the past few decades. Rwanda was always among those countries that was praised for one thing or another. Even when there was nothing to praise Rwanda for, really. Under [former hardline Hutu President Juvenal] Habyarimana's government, people were talking about how Rwanda is peaceful, Rwanda is stable. But our people were just living on hand-outs. Now, the question comes for our donors and partners: having spent so much money, what difference did it make? In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion...
...faces war-crimes charges at the U.N.-backed tribunal for Liberia , whose opening in Sierra Leone was marred by allegations of bias lodged against the presiding judge. Charge Rebuffed RWANDA President Paul Kagame rejected an allegation that he authorized the shooting down of a plane carrying then President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, killing Habyarimana and triggering the genocide that led to the deaths of more than 800,000 people. French newspaper Le Monde reported the charge, which it said is part of the findings of a French judicial investigation...
When independence came, the Hutu tribe, who comprised 85 percent of the population, took power and have held power since. When it was feared that President Habyarimana would give some power to the Tutsis, he was assassinated and a three-month long genocide of Tutsis began. The result was death of over 500,000 Rwandans, Nowrojee said...
...When independence came, the Hutu tribe, which comprised 85% of the population, took power and has held power since. When it was feared that President Habyarimana would give some power to the Tutsis, he was assassinated and a three-month long genocide of Tutsis began. The result was death of over 500,000 Rwandans, Nowrojee said...
Tutsi leaders did call on the French to arrest members of the old Hutu government who had escaped by helicopter into the safe haven, so they could be charged with war crimes. But the French, who had long propped up Habyarimana's regime, refused to turn on their former allies, saying that they were waiting for U.N. guidelines on how to handle war criminals. "All the criminals are now outside the country in the camps," an aid worker contended. "And you can bet the R.P.F. is going to screen them all before they are let back...