News about Juvenal Habyarimana

Genocide, 'blood minerals' and Africa's great war: How the histories of Rwanda and Congo - 'confused' by Tory minister in THAT Question Time gaffe - are inextricably linked by decades of bloodshed

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 26, 2024
WARNING: Graphic images. Responding to an audience member's question during the programme about the British government 's controversial Rwanda bill, Policing minister Chris Philp (top-right) seemed to ask whether 'Rwanda is a different country to Congo' - prompting laughter and disbelief from the audience and his fellow panellists. The Rwanda Bill became law on Thursday after being granted royal assent, paving the way for migrant deportation flights from the UK to get off the ground. The bill was held up at several stages, including over questions about whether Rwanda is a safe country - with one provision in the bill even stating 'that the Republic of Rwanda is a safe country' to allow the scheme to go ahead. Although Philp was mocked for his gaffe, the two central African nations have been inextricably linked by a recent and bloody history, with the UN and the US sounding the alarm in recent months over the rising risk of war once again.

Bazigaga, a heartbreaking true tale that inspired the BAFTA-nominated short film

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 19, 2023
Being nominated for a BAFTA is unquestionably a career-defining moment for any up-and-coming director. Jo Ingabire Moys (left) has a more reflective undertone. The director, 33, who lives in West London, survived the genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsi people when she was just five years old. Government officials arrived at her family's in Kigali on April 8, 1994, before opening fire on Jo, her parents, and her five older siblings. A plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, had been shot down two days earlier, which was what radicals suspected was planned by the Tutsis. Jo, mother, oldest brother, and sister survived the shooting and went into hiding at her aunt's house in the countryside. Jo lost her family in one of the most brutal ways imaginable, and the director has now produced a short film about the genocide (top right). Bottom right: Tutsi people pictured hiding in a church April 13, 1994 in Kigali, Rwanda