{"id":38659,"date":"2025-08-04T10:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Deces-de-Protais-Zigiranyirazo-ancien-dignitaire-du-regime-Habyarimana-38659\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:48:55","slug":"Deces-de-Protais-Zigiranyirazo-ancien-dignitaire-du-regime-Habyarimana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Deces-de-Protais-Zigiranyirazo-ancien-dignitaire-du-regime-Habyarimana\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9c\u00e8s de Protais Zigiranyirazo, ancien dignitaire du r\u00e9gime Habyarimana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des proches du pr\u00e9sident Habyarimana et poursuivi pour son implication dans le g\u00e9nocide perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 contre les Tutsi en 1994, Zigiranyirazo avait \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 en Belgique en 2001 \u00e0 la demande du Tribunal p\u00e9nal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR). Le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2008, il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 20 ans de prison par cette juridiction internationale, avant d\u2019\u00eatre acquitt\u00e9 en appel le 16 novembre 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis la fin de sa proc\u00e9dure judiciaire, Zigiranyirazo faisait partie des huit Rwandais rest\u00e9s en exil au Niger, apr\u00e8s que plusieurs pays leur ont refus\u00e9 l\u2019asile. Ces anciens d\u00e9tenus ou acquitt\u00e9s du TPIR s\u2019\u00e9taient retrouv\u00e9s dans un vide juridique et diplomatique, malgr\u00e9 la fin de leur peine ou la reconnaissance de leur innocence par les tribunaux.<\/p>\n<p>Membre influent de l\u2019Akazu \u2014 le clan politico-familial qui gravitait autour du couple pr\u00e9sidentiel Habyarimana \u2014 Protais Zigiranyirazo \u00e9tait \u00e9galement le fr\u00e8re d\u2019Agathe Kanziga, veuve de l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident. L\u2019Akazu est largement consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des principaux architectes de la planification du g\u00e9nocide contre les Tutsi, qui a co\u00fbt\u00e9 la vie \u00e0 plus d\u2019un million de personnes entre avril et\u00a0juillet\u00a01994.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64217 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/pz-3.jpg\" alt=\"Protais Zigiranyirazo, ancien pr\u00e9fet de Ruhengeri et membre influent de l\u2019\u00ab Akazu \u00bb sous Habyarimana, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 3 ao\u00fbt 2025 \u00e0 Niamey\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protais Zigiranyirazo, ancien pr\u00e9fet de la pr\u00e9fecture de Ruhengeri sous le r\u00e9gime de Juv\u00e9nal Habyarimana et figure centrale du cercle du pouvoir connu sous le nom d\u2019\u00ab\u202fAkazu\u202f\u00bb, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 3 ao\u00fbt 2025 \u00e0 Niamey, au Niger. La nouvelle de sa mort a \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9e ce lundi matin par son fils, Antoine Mukiza Zigiranyirazo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000064216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9865],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-homenews","byline-alain-bertrand-tunezerwe"],"bylines":[{"id":9865,"name":"Alain Bertrand Tunezerwe","slug":"alain-bertrand-tunezerwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":452}],"contributors":[{"id":9865,"name":"Alain Bertrand Tunezerwe","slug":"alain-bertrand-tunezerwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":452}],"featured_image":{"id":4000064216,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pz_cp.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000064216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38659"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38659"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}