Reyntjens was seeking influence again in October 1990 when, as he notes in his memoir, he offered his services to President Habyarimana following mass arrests of Tutsi and political opponents in the wake of the RPA invasion from Uganda. ‘I could help them manage a disastrous situation from the point of view of public relations,’ he wrote. At this time, he started to cooperate with a former colleague, the Rwandan historian Ferdinand Nahimana.
