Juvenal Habyarimana the Rwandan president whose plane was shot down in April 1994 launching the genocide was a political lightweight internationally who clung to Mobutu and to France's President François Mitterrand (AC Vol 45 No 6 Who fired the missiles...
Several belong to a generation whose members grew up alongside Kagame in western Uganda served as young men in Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) in the 1970s and 1980s joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) when it was secretly established in Kampala and invaded Rwanda in 1990 to topple Juvénal Habyarimana...
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Until now President Paul Kagame who has been investigated by France's judicial authorities for his claimed involvement in the plot to shoot down President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane and trigger the genocide in 1994 has insisted on Paris's admission of complicity...
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Two of Kabuga's daughters are married to the sons of President Juvenal Habyarimana whose death when his jet was shot down set off the mass killings...
Another sign that South Africa wants to repair relations with Rwanda is its refusal to grant permission for Nyamwasa to travel to France to give evidence to the judicial inquiry into the April 1994 shooting down of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana's jet which triggered the genocide...
One of the country's richest people he had interests in tobacco alcohol and property and had been an open supporter of the RPF during the reign of the late President Juvénal Habyarimana (AC Vol 35 No 8 From coup to carnage)...
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Vol 56 No 13 |
- RWANDA
- BRITAIN
Kigali likens this to the case launched by France and subsequently dropped accusing top RPF officials of involvement in the shooting down of the late President Juvénal Habyarimana's jet in April 1994 which triggered the genocide...
She had been arrested in Germany during the French investigation now abandoned into the shooting down of the jet of the then President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994...
Kigali was also infuriated by the accusation of anti-terrorism investigating magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière that Kagame and others were responsible for shooting down the French private jet carrying the then Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and his Burundian opposite number Cyprien Ntaryamira – along with the French pilots and cabin crew – on 6 April 1994 which triggered the genocide (AC Vol 45 No 6 Who fired the missiles...
Vol 53 No 2 |
- RWANDA
- FRANCE
On 11 January French judges Nathalie Poux and Marc Trévidic cleared the ruling Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) of shooting down the aeroplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira on 6 April 1994...