Juvénal Habyarimana

President of Rwanda from 1973 to 1994

Juvénal Habyarimana (Kinyarwanda: [hɑβɟɑːɾímɑ̂ːnɑ]; French: [ʒyvenal abjaʁimana]; 8 March 1937 – 6 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military dictator who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994. An ethnic Hutu, Habyarimana served in several security positions in the First Rwandese republic including minister of defense under Rwanda's second president, Grégoire Kayibanda. After overthrowing Kayibanda in a coup in 1973, he became the country's new president of the Second Rwandese Republic.

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