Genocide survivors umbrella IBUKA told Alongside her last born Jean-Luc Habyarimana, the former all-powerful Agathe Kanziga last week appeared on a Flemish broadcaster VRT on a program hosted by Peter Verlinden. How can you ask Rwandans to commemorate a genocide that happened and another one that did not happen?”She provoke the death of 800.000 people !!! Not long after Inkotanyi attacked, his school (pointing at her son) was empty; all the Tutsi students had left to RPF.”On July 8, 1993, a group of 50 individuals, who included the biggest names in business, established the Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM radio).Among founding members was billionaire businessman Felicien Kabuga, the son-in-law of Juvénal Habyarimana. But also, either knowingly or unaware, makes shocking revelations. She was airlifted by French commandos after the plane carrying her husband had fallen right in the presidential compound.Agathe Habyarimana says she does not know anything about the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, “because I rushed to France, right after death of my husband.”“We learnt about everything while in France. Widow of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana (1973-1994) Airlifted to France in the wake of the assassination of her husband, which precipitated the 1994 genocide Was arrested in France in March 2010 for alleged links to the genocide IVLP ’83 They did not take us with them.”In the VRT interview, Agathe Habyarimana and her son repeat the line of the deniers.“Tutsi may have been killed, Hutu were also killed…,” said Habyarimana’s son after hesitantly admitting that the genocide against Tutsi indeed happened.Despite the complete disregard by Agathe Habyarimana of the facts about the genocide, which left more than a million Tutsi dead, whose names are inscribed on memorial sites across Rwanda, the survivors expect such positions from her.Naphtali Ahishakiye, the Executive Secretary of Ibuka, an umbrella grouping of Genocide survivors’ associations told “Agathe Hayarimana – had a lot of power and no plan in the country could be executed without her knowledge.”“The family of the president had shares in RTLM radio though not registered as members. Agathe Habyarimana (née Kanziga) (born 1942) is the widow of former President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana. 1-2).Article 1(F)(a) of the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees excludes from the category of persons eligible for refugee status those in respect of whom “there are serious reasons for considering that he has committed [...] a crime against humanity.”Despite the persistent denial of the Appellant as to her involvement in the planning of the Rwandan genocide prior to her departure from the country, it results from numerous sources including public documents, case law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, witness testimony, reports of NGOs, that the Appellant formed part of the “Akazu” inner circle of the Presidency responsible for crimes committed between 1973 and 1994 (pp. The woman who was first lady of Rwanda for more than 20 years has gone public 23yrs later affirming that she had no idea there was plan to exterminate Tutsis in 1994. On 28 September 2011, the Court of Appeal for Paris rejected Rwanda’s extradition request for Habyarimana.Agathe Kanizga Habyarimana is the widow of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana whose plane was shot down on 6 April 1994, sparking the genocide in Rwanda that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.Although legally confined to the powers attributed to a First Lady, several witnesses have suggested that Agathe Habyarimana occupied a key role within the Rwandan government and was able to appoint and dismiss various women to high political posts who later became instrumental in the organisation and operation of the Rwandan genocide. I was not part of it.”Kanziga says, she only learnt about the Genocide in Rwanda after she had arrived in France. He was also on the plane with Habyarimana. Agathe Habyarimana (née Kanziga) (born 1942) is the widow of former President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana. The appeal is rejected (p. 10). He was also on the plane with Habyarimana.According to a declassified document available on AEGIS Trust website, the two daughters arrived at Habyarimana’s home in Kanombe on April 7, to see the body of their father. For years Agathe Habyarimana played the role of tragic widow – robbed of her husband, which became the first killing among hundreds of thousands in … Agathe Habyarimana is frequently regarded as one of the powers behind Juvénal habyarimana’s Presidencey and as part of the inner circle responsible for the planification and organisation of the Rwandan genocide. “Where would he have put them?”Habyarimana famously told his inner circle that Rwanda was like a glass full of water. They crafted a denial mechanism during and after the genocide. By the present decision, the Appeals Commission for Refugees confirmed the rejection and concluded that she had participated in the planning, organising and direction of the genocide in Rwanda since 1990.
The program host is no stranger to Rwanda. Some of what she says has been in public domain but there has been no documented proof.“My husband had told me: ‘never ask me anything about national business,…,” she began in the interview, “In the Military, all information is classified; even a spouse can never access it.”Kanziga confirmed the shocking anti-Tutsi statement that was supposedly made by President Juvenal Habyarimana, but for which no official record was available until now.“My husband said he could not allow all the Rwandan refugees to repatriate at once with all their cows and everything,” said Kanziga quoting President Habyarimana.