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| Affiliation | Rwandan Patriotic Front |
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| Name | Pasteur Bizimungu |
| Address |
Gisenyi, Gisenyi , Rwanda |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
April 00, 1950
(74 years)
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Aug 11, 2023 08:52pm |
| Tags |
African - Convicted - Imprisoned -
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| Info | Pasteur Bizimungu was the President of Rwanda from July 19, 1994 until March 23, 2000. He is an ethnic Hutu born in the Gisenyi prefecture of Rwanda.
Bizimungu worked within the Hutu MRND regime which ruled Rwanda (until 1994), including as director general of the national electricity company. In 1990 he joined the primarily Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front when his brother, a colonel in the Rwandan Armed Forces, was assassinated, possibly on the orders of the government.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front was dissatisfied with the Hutu government of Juvénal Habyarimana, who Pasteur Bizimungu was reportedly close to in the 1980s. After Habyarimana's death in a plane crash April 6, 1994 decades of complex ethnic, social and political hatreds were ignited and led to the Rwandan Genocide.
Eventually in July 1994 the Rwandan Patriotic Front gained control of the country and established a national unity government. The RPF leader, Tutsi Paul Kagame, was chosen vice-president, and Bizimungu was chosen President so that the majority Hutus would still be highly represented in the government.
Bizimungu was chosen largely for his harsh criticisms of Hutu hardliners. Bizimungu frequently reported that the hardliners assassinated his close friend Juvénal Habyarimana and reportedly supplied information to the MI6 demonstrating the involvement of Hutu hardliners and French intelligence in the assassination.
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