Word: habyarimana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Patriotic Front took over the capital of Kigali. Last Thursday the rebels marched to within nine miles of the town of Gisenyi, the latest stronghold of their former tormentors -- members of the majority Hutu tribe who participated in the erstwhile government, the murderous remainder of the regime of Juvenal Habyarimana. By the weekend the R.P.F. vice chairman, Patrick Mazimhaka, made clear that the tables were turned. "They are the rebels now," he said. Handpicked Patriotic Front politicians gathered support from African neighbors and negotiated with the U.N. to make its rule official...
...govern?" The R.P.F. has begun by choosing as the new Prime Minister Faustin Twangirimungu, a Hutu moderate like many killed alongside the Tutsi during the pogroms. This hardly indicates , a blanket Hutu amnesty: R.P.F. vice chairman Patrick Mazimhaka claims that genocide was "party policy" on the part of the Habyarimana regime. Yet he insists that the country's new Cabinet will also include members of the majority tribe...