Guillaume Logiest

Guillaume Logiest (* 1912 in Ledeberg-lez-Gand , † 1991 ), mainly as Guy Logiest known was a Belgian military, the Belgian UN - mandated territory of Ruanda was used as a high representative.

Life

Guillaume Logiest grew up in Ghent as the son of a French-speaking family. He joined the military as a young man.

After he was withdrawn from the Belgian Congo by General Janssens , he and his soldiers of the Force publique came to Rwanda on November 4, 1959 , in order to bring the unrest there under control. There he was special military governor from November 11, 1959 to January 1960, later special resident of Belgium and then high representative of Belgium in Rwanda until the country became independent . He was instrumental in ensuring that Belgium no longer favored the Tutsi , but switched to a policy of favoring the Hutu . At the beginning of 1960, Logiest replaced all Tutsi chiefs with Hutu chiefs, thereby shifting the power relationship that prevailed during the colonial era. As a result, there was a systematic suppression of the formerly ruling Tutsi. More than 7,000 Tutsi have been detained and 15,000 have been relocated. In addition, there was a mass exodus of 130,000 Tutsi who settled in the Belgian Congo, Burundi , Tanganyika and Uganda . There were also isolated pogroms . In 1961, after the first free elections in Rwanda, he declared that the revolution was over. In fact, the problems persisted. The highly explosive situation, which even years later eased only slightly, then escalated in the 1990s with the genocide in Rwanda .

In 1988 his autobiography Mission au Rwanda appeared , which dealt in particular with his role in the Rwanda conflict.

Works

Mission au Rwanda . Büssel: Diedier Hatier 1988.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Gérard Prunier: The Rwanda Crisis, 1959-1994: History of a Genocide . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-1-85065-243-4 , pp. 49 .
↑ Helmut Strizek: Clinton on Lake Kivu: the story of an African catastrophe . Peter Lang, 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60563-9 , pp. 50 .
↑ Mahmood Mamdani: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda . Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-10280-1 , pp. 124 .

personal data
SURNAME	Logiest, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Logiest, guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian military resident in Rwanda and high representative of Belgium there
DATE OF BIRTH	1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ledeberg-lez-Gand , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	1991

[Rwanda-1] A ^b Gérard Prunier: The Rwanda Crisis, 1959-1994: History of a Genocide . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-1-85065-243-4 , pp. 49 .

[2] Helmut Strizek: Clinton on Lake Kivu: the story of an African catastrophe . Peter Lang, 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60563-9 , pp. 50 .

[3] Mahmood Mamdani: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda . Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-10280-1 , pp. 124 .