Bernard Lugan was born on 10 May 1946 and is a French historian who specialises in African history.
16 Facts About Bernard Lugan
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Bernard Lugan is a professor at the Institut des hautes etudes de defense nationale and the editor of the journal L'Afrique reelle.
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Bernard Lugan served as an expert witness for Hutu defendants involved in the Rwandan genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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Close to the far-right, Bernard Lugan is a self-declared monarchist and right-wing anarchist.
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Bernard Lugan attended Paris X University Nanterre and earned a PhD in history in 1976 after a thesis on Rwandan economy in the 19th century.
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Bernard Lugan moved to Africa in the early 1970s where he conducted archaeological research in Rwanda.
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In June 1982, Bernard Lugan left Rwanda and became an associate professor of African history at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.
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In 1983, Bernard Lugan authored another thesis for a state doctorate, Between the servitudes of the hoe and the spells of the cow: the rural world in ancient Rwanda.
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Bernard Lugan has been involved with far-right news outlets like Minute, National-Hebdo or Present, which regard him as a specialist of African history.
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Bernard Lugan served as a Professor at the military school of Saint-Cyr until 2015, when his class was suspended at the request of the French Defence Ministry.
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Bernard Lugan is teaching at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale.
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Bernard Lugan was cited by several Hutu defendants ultimately convicted for their involvement in the genocide, including Theoneste Bagosora, Tharcisse Renzaho and Emmanuel Ndindabahizi.
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When testifying at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Bernard Lugan admitted that he is a right-wing anarchist, adding: "of musketeer leaning".
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Bernard Lugan is in favour of the re-establishment of dueling for libel and public insult, and founded in 1990 with Vladimir Volkoff an association to promote this agenda.
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Bernard Lugan is a member of the National Council of European Resistance, launched in November 2017 and presided by Renaud Camus.
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Bernard Lugan notably proposes a redrawing of national African frontiers in accordance with ethnic groupings and promotes a new type of democracy, more rooted in those native groupings rather than on Western "one man one vote" system.