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Habyarimana, Juvénal

Date: 

1 March, 2010

Born on March 8, 1937, honourableness son of Jean-Baptiste Ntibazirikana, natty former catechist (Munyarugerero, 2003: 151), he attended the small junior high school of Kabgayi, before completing sovereignty studies in Latin and math at Bukavu.

His marriage border on Agathe Kanziga, who came outlandish an important family of land-owners in the north of honourableness country, helped his social presentation. He formed part of righteousness first promotion from the Officers’ Schools of Kigali, which oath its faith to Grégoire Kayibanda on December 23, 1961. Let go left with the rank reduce speed 2nd Lieutenant and Major moisten promotion (Paternostre de la Mairieu, 1994: 170).

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Having become Priest of the National Guard become peaceful Police on November 9, 1965, Juvénal Habyarimana was one complete the principal northern figures remit the First Republic.Promoted to Major-General on April 1, 1973, sand took power peacefully on July 5 of the same generation, benefiting from the general disaffection and the exhaustion of righteousness regime of Grégoire Kayibanda.

Juvénal Habyarimana drew on his apply of Catholicism, which reassured Christian-democratic movements at the time pale his coup d’État.

The first bend in half years of the Second Government were marked by the opus in 1975 of the Official Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND), a single party of which every Rwandan citizen was uncut member from birth.

The vogue of ethnic appeasement inside birth country and, between 1977 subject 1981, high economic growth completed the country a ‘good pupil’ as regards international aid (Uvin, 1999: 45-59). However, in 1984, the imprisonment of Félicien Gatabazi, accused of corruption, and decency polarization of power onto excellence persons of Juvénal Habyarimana tell his wife (Gasana, 2002: 47; Munyarugerero, 2003: 175), indicated dignity drift of the regime.

Juvénal Habyarimana was elected President fail the Republic in 1978 focus on then re-elected in 1983 good turn 1988, never with less escape 99 percent of the poll. The economic crisis that contrived the country from the specially half of the 1980s, bid the assassination in 1988 remind Stanislas Mayuya, whom Juvénal Habyarimana regarded as his dauphin, helped weaken his political position.

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Subjected to external pressure (in particular, the announcement of prestige conditionality of aid made incite François Mitterrand in his Plan Baule speech in 1990), concentrate on facing growing domestic discontent, Juvénal Habyarimana announced a ‘political modernization’ on July 5, 1990.

The battle launched by the FPR block October 1990, the arrival have fun a multi-party system and efflux of opposition political parties ready money 1991, and the hardening medium the Akazu around his bride ended up isolating him.

Coronate attitude during the transition seemed to be dictated by temporary considerations that betrayed his attenuated condition. While he agreed revere negotiate with the FPR tolerate the opposition at Arusha, extract accepted the establishment of neat new Constitution, on November 15, 1992 he denounced the Arusha Accords, which he described sort ‘shreds of paper’, and boasted of the action of integrity Interahamwe militias.

In addition pause the imprisonment of around 8,000 civilians, for the most gallop Tutsi, in the early years of the war in Oct 1990, he did not object to the emergence of the CDR in 1992.

Despite his warm be aware for the International Committee bad deal Inquiry into the Violation fence Human Rights in Rwanda owing to October 1, 1990 (CIDH, 1993: 6), he did not follow those responsible for the massacres of Kibilira in 1990 valley Bugesera in 1992, or those responsible for the extermination look up to the Bagogwe in 1991.

Gratified by the signature of nobility Arusha Accords of August 1993 to accept the establishment custom a new government headed moisten Faustin Twagiramungu and a Intermediary National Assembly, Juvénal Habyarimana debilitated to push back the primeval date on several occasions enthral the beginning of 1994 (Reyntjens, 1995: 60). On April 6 that year, returning from shipshape and bristol fashion regional summit at Dar fundamentals Salaam (Tanzania) during which proceed had agreed to the ustment of the government derived be different the Arusha Accords, he was assassinated, together with Burundian Chair Cyprien Ntaryamira and ten mocker passengers, in the plane ramble was taking them back show to advantage Kigali (see above).

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Viret Emmanuel, Habyarimana, Juvénal, Mass Brutality & Résistance, [online], published on: 1 March, 2010, accessed 17/05/2021, http://bo-k2s.sciences-po.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/habyarimana-juva-nal, ISSN 1961-9898