Immediately prior to his appointment as prime minister, Mazuka was the Rwandan ambassador to Germany. Makuza was appointed by former president Pasteur Bizimungu after the resignation of former prime minister Pierre-Célestin Rwigema, who had been heavily criticized in the Rwandan press and by other parliamentarians.[1] Pasteur Bizimungu (born 1950) was the President of Rwanda from July 19, 1994 until March 23, 2000. ... Pierre-Celestin Rwigema (born 1953 or 1954) is a Rwandan politician. ...
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In the first elections held since the 1994 genocide, Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and allied parties won 58 of the 80 seats in the lower house, and 12 of the 20 seats in the upper house.
Makuza, a moderate Hutu, is not a member of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, a former Tutsi rebel group that has ruled since the end of the genocide.
The historic legislative vote marked the end of a transitional government which was put in place at the end of the genocide, in which up to a million people, most of them ethnic Tutsis, were slaughtered in a killing spree organised by the Hutu government at the time.
His status as the real power in Rwanda since 1994 was made formal in April 2000 when the parliament and cabinet voted to install him in the role of president.
BernardMakuza became prime minister, heading a new cabinet.
By April 2000, Rwandan courts had sentenced more than 300 people to death for their part in the 1994 genocide; around 120,000 people still awaited trial.
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