Somehow, Habyarimana’s body ended up in Congo, where then-President Mobutu Sese Seko, a longtime friend, kept it on the grounds of his jungle palace. In 1997, a day before his overthrow by RPF ...

The 225-page report leaked to Le Monde places the entire blame for the missile attack on President Habyarimana’s plane on current Rwandan President Paul Kagame. That attack was surely one of the ...

The question of the assassination of President Habyarimana is politically explosive. If it was established that Mr Kagame was responsible, the moral, if not legal, implications would be devastating.

The report details at length how openly the Habyarimana assassination plot was spoken about in the months before his death; at one point, it notes that President Mobutu Sese Seko of neighboring ...

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.

Habyarimana was the second president of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly a German and then a Belgian colony, serving from 1973 to 1994. The nation had long been torn by strife between its two ...

The Rwandan Genocide began after a plane carrying then-Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down as it flew over Kigali. The Tutsis were blamed for the death of Habyarimana and ...