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President Habyarimana is the leader of the Hutu government in the period leading up to the genocide. He helps to stoke ethnic tensions by instituting ethnic roll calls in classrooms, limiting the number of places for Tutsis at schools and universities, and calling RPF soldiers “foreigners” despite the fact that they are the descendants of Rwandan Tutsis expelled by Hutu persecution. He eventually signs a peace treaty with the RPF, but shortly afterwards he is killed when his plane is shot down, triggering the genocide.
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Hundreds of thousands of Tutsis had fled Rwanda during the troubles of 1959 and 1973, as well as the many other times that Hutu extremists had gone on Tutsi killing sprees. They'd gone into exile to save their lives and those of their families. Mr. Gahigi called the rebels "foreigners" because most of them grew up in neighboring countries such as Uganda and Zaire—but that was only because President Habyarimana enforced a policy banning exiles from ever returning to Rwanda. He'd created a Tutsi diaspora, and entire generations of Rwandan Tutsis had grown up without once setting foot in their homeland.
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President Juvénal Habyarimana Quotes in Left to Tell
The Left to Tell quotes below are all either spoken by President Juvénal Habyarimana or refer to President Juvénal Habyarimana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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Hundreds of thousands of Tutsis had fled Rwanda during the troubles of 1959 and 1973, as well as the many other times that Hutu extremists had gone on Tutsi killing sprees. They'd gone into exile to save their lives and those of their families. Mr. Gahigi called the rebels "foreigners" because most of them grew up in neighboring countries such as Uganda and Zaire—but that was only because President Habyarimana enforced a policy banning exiles from ever returning to Rwanda. He'd created a Tutsi diaspora, and entire generations of Rwandan Tutsis had grown up without once setting foot in their homeland.
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