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 ...

It went as follows: “Mr Kayibanda is discharged of his duties as President of the Republic; Major General Juvénal Habyarimana will assume the constitutional prerogative of head of state; The ...

In just three months, an estimated 800,000 people were massacred in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. BBC News Online examines the causes.

Updated 3:50 p.m. ET. French authorities on Tuesday briefly detained the widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, who is being sought by Rwanda on charges related to the nation's 1994 ...

The RPF's success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to speed up political reforms. * In August 1993, Rwanda and the RPF signed a deal to end years of civil war, allowing for power ...

Minister of Defense Juvénal Habyarimana [Photo: US Department of Defense]. Habyarimana had ascended the ranks of the military having initially been educated and trained by the Belgian colonial ...

After then-President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane was shot down in April 1994, violence broke out across the country, and the Hutu majority targeted the minority population, killing an estimated ...

After then-President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane was shot down, violence broke out across the country and the Hutu majority targeted the minority population — killing about 800,000 Tutsis ...

Most historians mark the start of the genocide in Rwanda with the April 6 downing of the plane of Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana. Refugees are seen here in 1994.

Opinion - In the previous article in this serialised narrative, we took note of how the new constitution gave excessive powers to President Juvenal Habyarimana's MRND's party and its leader. MRND ...