Agathe Habyarimana

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Agathe Habyarimana , born Agathe Kanziga (* 21st January 1942 in Tororo , Uganda ) is the widow of the on 6 April 1994 launch of its aircraft who died president of Rwanda , Juvénal Habyarimana . She and her family clan called Akazu were considered to be the real power behind the throne of her husband's twenty-year presidency. Her Akazu is believed to have played a crucial role in the genocide in Rwanda .

Agathe Habyarimana played a key role both in the founding of Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines in 1993 and in the Kangura newspaper, which was founded in 1990 . Radio station and newspaper were propaganda organs that a sedition operated that the genocide resulted.

Immediately after her husband's death and the start of the genocide, she was flown out of Rwanda by French troops . She still lives in France to this day, but her asylum application was rejected. On March 2, 2010, she was arrested at her home in Courcouronnes, south of Paris. After a few hours, she was released under certain conditions. The Rwandan Justice Minister called for the president's widow to be extradited.

She is the sister of Protais Zigiranyirazo , also known as Monsieur Zed (or "Mr. Z"), a businessman and politician who is accused of being involved in the 1985 murder of US gorilla researcher Dian Fossey . He is also considered to be a major co-organizer of the 1994 genocide . In 2001 he was arrested by the Belgian authorities in Brussels , but not charged in Belgium, but extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). After he was sentenced to twenty years in prison on December 15, 2008, the sentence was overturned on November 16, 2009 by an appeals chamber for "fundamental errors of law" and Zigiranyirazo was released.

literature

  • Alison Des Forges : No witness is allowed to survive. The genocide in Rwanda . 1st edition. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-80-8 (American English: Leave none to tell the story . Translated by Jürgen Bauer).
  • Philip Gourevitch : We want to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. Reports from Rwanda . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8270-0351-2 (investigation of the entanglements of Agathe Habyarimana and her circle of power, which also belonged to Colonel Théoneste Bagosora ; the investigation comes to the conclusion that both the attack on her husband and the Organization of the genocide emanated from these circles)
  • Belgium arrests genocide planners . In: taz , July 28, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The resurrection of "Lord Z" . In: taz . November 20, 2009 ( online [accessed April 20, 2014]).
  2. ↑ France holds Rwandan presidential widow . Spiegel-Online , March 2, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Habyarimana, Agathe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanziga, Agathe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rwandan widow of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tororo , Uganda