Juvenal Habyarimana ( Fr. Juvénal Habyarimana , March 8, 1937 - April 6, 1994 ) - President of the Republic of Rwanda from August 1, 1973 to April 6, 1994 .
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 Juvenal Habyarimana in 1980 | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Gregoire Caiibanda | ||||||
| Successor | Theodore Cindicubvabo | ||||||
| Birth | Rwanda | ||||||
| Death | Kigali , Rwanda | ||||||
| Spouse | Agatha Khabarimanu | ||||||
| The consignment | National Revolutionary Development Movement | ||||||
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Hutu by origin. He studied at the University of Leopoldville (now Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of the Congo ), then graduated from an officer school in Kigali (Rwanda). In independent Rwanda, he held a number of senior posts in the army and police. Since 1970 - Colonel, since 1973 - Major General. Minister of Defense and State Security.
In July 1973, he made a coup d'etat , taking the presidency. Head of government since 1974. Chairman of the National Revolutionary Movement for Development Party (NRDR, founded by him in 1975). He pursued a policy of close cooperation with the West.
On April 6, 1994, he was killed along with the President of the Republic of Burundi, Siprien Ntaryamira, as a result of shelling of an aircraft from MANPADS . The remains of the deceased were in Zaire, where they were placed in the mausoleum in Bado Lite. In May 1997, a casket with the body of Habyarimana was excavated and sent by plane to Kinshasa. The aircraft stood in the capital’s airport for three days, then under the supervision of a Hindu priest the corpse was cremated and the ashes buried [4] .
A museum has been operating in the presidential palace of Juvenal Habiarimana in Kanobme since 2009 [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ French, Howard W. Ending a Chapter, Mobutu Cremates Rwanda Ally , The New York Times (May 16, 1997). Date of treatment November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Presidential Palace Museum-Kanombe / Kigali . Institute of National Museums of Rwanda . Date of treatment March 16, 2014.
Literature
- Krivushin I.V. Murder of the President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimany April 6, 1994 // History of Africa: old and new approaches. XIII International Conference “Society and Politics in Africa: Unchanging, Changing, New” (materials of section 3-1 “History”, Moscow, May 27–30, 2014) / Ed. A. S. Balezin. - M .: IVI RAS, 2015. - S. 28–47.