Jean Kambanda

Jean Kambanda (* October 19, 1955 ) is a former Rwandan politician. It was during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda Prime Minister. He is the first and only former Prime Minister, who has been known since the introduction of the prohibition of genocide by the United Nations in 1951 this act guilty.

Kambanda has a degree in industrial engineering and began his career at the United Popular BPR Bank. He climbed on the position of technocrats to the chairman of the bank. At the time of the crisis in April 1994, he was vice president of the local branch of the opposition party Democratic Butare Republican Movement (MDR ).

On April 9, 1994, two days after the former Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana had been murdered, he took over the premiership. The MDR was the post of Prime Minister promised in the transitional government, but Kambanda jumped several levels in the party hierarchy and got the post instead of the original candidate Faustin Twagiramungu. He remained on the 100 days of genocide until 19 July 1994 with Office. During the massacre spread Kambanda calls for violence, an example: ". Genocide is justified in the fight against the enemy" ( " Genocide is justified by the fight against the enemy. "). After he resigned, he fled the country.

Responsibility for crimes

Kambanda was arrested in Nairobi on 19 July 1997 and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR) handed over. The court accused him of proliferation of weapons and ammunition in Butare and Gitarama with the knowledge that these weapons were used in massacre of civilians.

On September 4, 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the ICTR. He was found guilty of crimes

  • Of genocide and the agreement to commit genocide,
  • Public provocation to commit genocide,
  • To have supported the genocide,
  • Of failure at his job as Prime Minister, to prevent the genocide, and
  • Against humanity in two cases.

Kambanda is currently detained in Mali.

Grégoire Kayibanda | Sylvestre Nsanzimana | Dismas Nsengiyaremye | Agathe Uwilingiyimana | Jean Kambanda | Faustin Twagiramungu | Pierre- Célestin Rwigema | Makuza | Pierre Habumuremyi

  • Prime Minister (Rwanda )
  • Genocide in Rwanda
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Born in 1955
  • Man
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