Ferdinand Nahimana

Who is Ferdinand Nahimana?

Ferdinand Nahimana is a Rwandan historian who was convicted of participating in the Rwandan Genocide.

Nahimana was co-founder of the radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, which during the genocide broadcast information and propaganda that helped coordinate the killings and fuel the hatred against Tutsi and moderate Hutu victims.

Ferdinand Nahimana holds a Doctorate in History from the University Paris Diderot. Between 1979 and 2007 he wrote many books, articles, about Rwandan History. In 1993 Nahimana helped create the RTLM radio station.

In April 1994, as the violence erupted in Rwanda after President Juvénal Habyarimana's death in a plane crash, the French embassy took Ferdinand Nahimana in, thereby helping him escape to Burundi. He was later arrested in Cameroon on 27 March 1996.