Juvenal Habyarimana and the Rwandan Genocide

An Outspoken Leader
In character, Juvenal Habyarimana was a great leader. He had grown up being oppressed by Tutsis under Belgium rule and was simply returning the favor. Later in his presidency, he began to lose power and became scared that Tutsi revolutionaries (led by Paul Kagame) in Uganda were going to overthrow his administration just like they had to the president of Uganda. Habyarimana later let Tutsi refugees that he had originally oppressed return to Rwanda freely to try to settle the score with the Tutsis. He was later shot down by Paul Kagame and his rebel group (or by Hutu extremists as some believe) in April of ’94. He was trying to become untied as a country but he was shot down and killed for it.
Out of character, I believe that Kagame and Habyarimana were both equally responsible for starting this. Habyarimana for using segregation to try to get revenge on the Tutsis for segregating against him as a child and for brainwashing people who would later become the interahamwe to o out and kill their Tutsi neighbors. I now blame Kagame for overreacting and killing Habyarimana. If he hadn’t shot down that plane, his people would have lived in segregation and not have been murdered.