Froduald Karamira

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Froduald Karamira (born August 14, 1947 in Mushubati , † April 24, 1998 in Kigali ) was a Rwandan politician of the MDR party .

Karamira was born on August 14, 1947 in Mushubati. Although he by birth of the ethnic group of Tutsi belonged, he was later due to a custom of Hutu . He owned real estate in Kigali . Karamira was Vice President of the MDR. Two days after the murder of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye , a Hutu, on October 23, 1993, he gave a speech at a protest rally. In this speech he criticized President Juvénal Habyarimana for agreeing to the Arusha Agreement . He attacked moderate MDR politicians like Faustin Twagiramungu and called the Tutsi enemies. Because of this speech, he is considered one of the most important theorists of the Hutu power movement and even as the creator of the word Hutu power . In the following years Karamira was one of the most influential politicians of the extremist wing of the MDR.

After the death of President Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, he worked as a representative of the MDR in the installation of the transitional government. At the meeting of the military crisis committee, he proposed his party colleague Jean Kambanda for the office of prime minister. During the genocide of the Tutsi from April to July 1994, he demanded the murder of Tutsi on the RTLM radio station . He is also believed to have personally committed murders of Tutsi, including members of his own family.

After the conquest of Rwanda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), he left the country. In July 1996 he was arrested in Bombay and extradited to Rwanda. There they were charged with genocide, murder and other offenses on January 13, 1997 and sentenced to death on February 14, 1997. After his appeal was rejected, the sentence was carried out publicly by shooting on April 24, 1998 at Nyamirambo Stadium.

literature

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

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