Dismas Nsengiyaremye

Dismas Nsengiyaremye (* 1945 ) was Prime Minister of Rwanda and a member of the MDR . He was appointed Prime Minister of Rwanda on April 2, 1992.

Nsengiyaremye worked for peace with the rebel movement Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) during his tenure . After it had committed human rights violations during an offensive in February 1993, he is said to have seen the RPF increasingly as more militant. In March 1993, at a conference of the commanders in chief of the armed forces and the army, in which President Habyarimana also took part, Nsengiyaremye said that he was open to the distribution of weapons to civilians for civil self-defense, as long as this was controlled. He stated, however, that he only saw the RPF as an enemy to be fought.

As a result of the unrest that had previously broken out in Kigali , Nsengiyaremye publicly accused President Habyarimana of deliberately sabotaging the peace process with the RPF in early July 1993. Nsengiyaremye pursued the goal of involving the RPF in a newly formed government. On July 18, 1993, Agathe Uwilingiyimana succeeded him in the office of Prime Minister. The fear of possible personal assassinations led Nsengiyaremye to emigrate to Europe.

literature

• Linda Melvern: Rwanda Genocide and the Involvement of the Western World. Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7205-2486-8 , pp. 47, 59, 63, 64.