Agathe Habyarimana

Agathe Habyarimana, Agathe born Kanziga ( born January 21, 1942 in Tororo ), is the widow of a plane crash who died on 6 April 1994 Juvenal Habyarimana, the former President of Rwanda. She and her family clan called akazu were considered the real power behind the throne of the twenty year's " presidency" of her husband. Your akazu is attributed a decisive role in the genocide in Rwanda.

Agathe Habyarimana played a crucial role both in the establishment of Radio - Télévision Libre des Mille Collines and in the newspaper Kangura. Radio stations and newspapers were propaganda organs that operated an incitement that led to genocide.

Immediately after her husband's death and the beginning of the genocide, she was flown out of French troops from Rwanda. She lives today in France, her asylum application was rejected. She was arrested in her home Courcouronnes south of Paris on 2 March 2010. After a few hours they came under conditions free again. The Rwandan Minister of Justice demanded the delivery of the President 's widow.

She is the sister of Protais Zigiranyirazo, also known as Monsieur Zed (or "Mr. Z"), a businessman and politician who is accused of being involved in the 1985 murder of U.S. gorilla researcher Dian Fossey. He is also regarded as significant co-organizer of the genocide of 1994. 2001 he was arrested in Brussels by the Belgian authorities, but not indicted in Belgium, but the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR ) delivered. After he was sentenced on December 15, 2008 in the first instance to twenty years of imprisonment, the sentence "fundamental [r ] error of law " was re- released and released Zigiranyirazo on November 16, 2009, an appeal chamber due.