Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame

male, 52 years old
Paul Kagame (born October 23, 1957) is the current President of Rwanda and the founder of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. He came to prominence as the...
Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina

male, 55 years old
Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan who has been internationally honoured for saving over 1,000 civilians during the Rwandan Genocide. He was the...
Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch

male, 48 years old
Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared since 1995. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow...

Roméo Dallaire

male, 63 years old
Lieutenant-General Roméo Alain Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD, B.Sc, LL.D (h.c.) (born June 25, 1946 in Denekamp, The Netherlands) is a Canadian s...
Mobutu Sese Seko

Mobutu Sese Seko

male, deceased (1997)
Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga, known commonly as Mobutu, or Mobutu Sese Seko, born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, was the President of Zaire (n...
Linda Melvern

Linda Melvern

female
Linda Melvern is a British investigative journalist. For several years she worked for "The Sunday Times" (UK), including on the investigative...

Juvénal Habyarimana

male, deceased (1994)
Juvénal Habyarimana was president of Rwanda from 1973 until he died in a plane crash in 1994. His assassination ignited ethnic tensions in the r...

Immaculée Ilibagiza

female
Immaculée Ilibagiza is a Rwandan author and motivational speaker. She is also a Roman Catholic and Tutsi. Her first book, "Left to Tell: D...
Jean Kambanda

Jean Kambanda

male, 54 years old
Jean Kambanda (born October 19, 1955) was the Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda from the start of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He...
Ferdinand Nahimana

Ferdinand Nahimana

male
Ferdinand Nahimana is a Rwandan former journalist, convicted of participating in the Rwandan Genocide. Nahimana was the director and co-founder of...