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|fullname = Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana|alias = Mrs. Genocide|origin = Karago, Gisenyi Prefecture, Rwanda|occupation = First Lady of Rwanda (1973 - 1994)|skills = Manipulation<br>Planning|hobby = Planning genocides|goals = Eliminate Tutsis in Rwanda (failed)<br>Keep her husband and his party in power (failed)|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Conspiracy<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]|type of villain = Conspiratorial Mastermind}}'''Agathe Habyarimana '''(January 23, 1942) was the First Lady of Rwanda from 1973-1994. As First Lady, she was highly influential, and together with a group of Hutu supremacists who supported her and her husband [[Juvénal Habyarimana]], was instrumental in plotting the [[Rwandan Genocide]].

Agathe Habyarimana was born Agathe Kanziga in 1942 in Gisenyi Prefecture. She came from a powerful family that had once ruled a Hutu city-state, and remained influential. In 1963, she was married to Juvenal Habyarimana.

In 1973, Juvenal overthrew President [[Grégoire Kayibanda]] and made himself president. It's believed that Agathe's family connections provided him with a lot of support for his coup; as a result, she had a lot of power and was seen by some as Rwanda's real ruler.

At some point in the early 1990's in response to the Rwandan Civil War and democratization of the country, Agathe and her allies formed a group within the ruling [[MRND]] party called the ''[[Akazu]]'' (Kinyarwanda: "little house") also known as the Zero Network. Since Agathe was the leader, it was also known as ''le clan de madame''(French: "the lady's clan"). The group was informal and was not an organization, nor a secret society. They believed the time had come to eliminate the Tutsi once and for all, and their objective was to promote this idea to the general Hutu population.

They created ''[[Kangura]]'' magazine, which was edited by one of their members, [[Hassan Ngeze]] and funded by the businessmen in the group, such as [[Felicien Kabuga]], who, together with some of the group's other members, would also organize [[Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines]], which promoted the [[Hutu Power]] ideology.

Habyarimana was flown out of Rwanda three days after the killings began, and landed in France, which had also helped other Akazu members escape, albeit not all to France.

* She's not to be confused with Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda during the [[Civil War|civil war]]. Ironically, they're polar opposites; Uwilingiyimana was a moderate, and declassified documents show that Habyarimana may have ordered her death.

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