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Juvénal Habyarimana (Kinyarwanda: [hɑβɟɑːɾímɑ̂ːnɑ], French: [ʒyvenal abjaʁimana]; 8 March 1937 – 6 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994.
Juvenal Habyarimana was an army officer and a politician who ruled Rwanda almost single-handedly for more than 20 years after he seized power in a 1973 coup. He was killed when a plane on which he was a passenger was shot down over Kigali in April 1994.
On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed.
Mar 25, 2018 · President Juvénal Habyarimana, who accepted the agreements, was assassinated on April 4, 1994 by Hutu supremacists. His plane was shot down as he was returning from a meeting with the President of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
May 17, 2011 · The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.
But no plane crash involving a world leader has led to the kind of consequences that followed the death of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994. His death did more than...
Apr 4, 2019 · On the night of 6 April 1994 a plane carrying then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi - both Hutus - was shot down, killing everyone on board.
Apr 7, 1994 · President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, who was reported killed yesterday when his airplane crashed while returning from a conference of African leaders, assumed power over the small Central...
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Juvenal Habyarimana 1937 – 1994. President of Rwanda. At a Glance … Seized and Held Power. Marked for Death. Sources. In 1994, the African nation of Rwanda was engulfed in a bloody civil war heightened by the sudden death of its president, Major-General Juvenal Habyarimana.
1937?–1994 Military leader and president of Rwanda.Habyarimana was born in Gisenyi in northern Rwanda into a prominent family of the Hutu ethnic group. He completed one year at Lovanium ...
