The National Archives exposed the true nature of the twenty- year rule of President Habyarimana, a man who portrayed himself as modest and religious, someone who cared only for the development of his country. In fact, Habyarimana and his cronies, mostly his wife, Agathe Kanziga, and her relatives, treated the country and its peasant population as a fiefdom, motivated by greed and racial hatred. On taking office in a military coup in 1973 Habyarimana promised to ease ethnic tension, but instead increased discrimination against Tutsi and reinforced the policy called ‘ethnic équilibre’ that was
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