Déogratias Nsabimana

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Déogratias Nsabimana († April 6, 1994 near Kigali ) was chief of staff in the Rwandan army.

Déogratias Nsabimana was a Rwandan military man, first in the rank of colonel and then major general . He was a member of Netzwerk Null , a communications association of the military and politicians, which commanded death squads . In April 1992, Nsabimana was appointed Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army . In this role he supported the construction of a new parachutist unit. As evidence of cooperation between the Rwandan army and the Interahamwe - militia showed up, he said that he had no knowledge of this cooperation. He took the view to the Minister of Defense that the Ministry of Justice should deal with this matter. Nsabimana also presented a plan to have Hutu extremist Ferdinand Nahimana develop a history class program for the Rwandan army. Classes should deal with the offenses of the former Tutsi rulers. In December 1993 , 600 RPF soldiers were relocated to Kigali as part of the Arusha Agreement , which provided for a peace treaty with the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel movement . Nsabimana refused to do this. In the following year, Nsabimana is said to have participated in the creation of weapons stores for the Interahamwe. According to a witness, in March 1994 Nsabimana discussed with Colonel Gratien Kabiligi ways of defeating the RPF after the Arusha Peace Accords came into force.

assassination

On April 6, 1994, Nsabimana flew with President Juvénal Habyarimana to a meeting of African heads of state in Dar es Salaam . When Habyarimana and his companion returned to Kigali on the evening of April 6, his plane was hit by two missiles and crashed. Nsabimana was killed in this crash.

The later Rwandan President Paul Kagame suggested that Nsabimana had prepared a conspiracy against Habyarimana and that Habyarimana had therefore allowed him to travel to Dar es Salaam to keep him under surveillance.

literature

  • Linda Melvern: Rwanda The genocide and the participation of the western world , Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2004. ISBN 3-7205-2486-8

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Linda Melvern: Rwanda, Genocide and the Involvement of the Western World , p. 46
  2. ^ Melvern, p. 58
  3. ^ Melvern, p. 58
  4. ^ Melvern, p. 117
  5. ^ Melvern, p. 146
  6. ↑ Melvern, p. 304
personal data
SURNAME Nsabimana, Déogratias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rwandan military
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1994
Place of death at Kigali