Joseph Kavaruganda was a Rwandan jurist who served as president of Rwanda's Constitutional Court.
11 Facts About Joseph Kavaruganda
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Joseph Kavaruganda was killed at the beginning of the Rwandan genocide.
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Joseph Kavaruganda was born on 8 May 1935 in Tare, Ruanda-Urundi.
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Joseph Kavaruganda attended primary school in Tare, and then attended the Kigali Junior Seminary before studying law in Belgium, earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1966.
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Joseph Kavaruganda returned to Rwanda in 1967 and took up work as a president of Caisse d'Epargne, a credit and savings institution.
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Joseph Kavaruganda came under increased pressure following his break with Habyarimana.
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Tired with what he perceived as obstructionism, in 1993 Joseph Kavaruganda wrote a letter to the president, listing the occasions in the previous years in which he had violated laws and broken his promises.
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Joseph Kavaruganda had assisted in drafting the agreement, which provoked the further ire of Hutu extremists.
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Joseph Kavaruganda then spoke briefly over the phone with his son, Jean-Marcel, who was in Brussels.
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Joseph Kavaruganda then telephoned the Belgian UN contingent and Ghanaian and Bangladeshi UN outposts, telling him his family was under attack and he needed help.
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Joseph Kavaruganda cried to her father for help, and Kavaruganda revealed himself and insisted again on getting dressed.