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词条 Patrick Mazimhaka
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  1. Youth and education

  2. Early career

  3. Later activity

  4. Death

  5. References

  6. Further reading

{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka (26 April 1948 – 25 January 2018) was the former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union's African Commission. He was elected the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission in July 2003 held in Maputo, Mozambique, and held the office until 6 February 2008, when he was succeeded by Erastus J. O. Mwencha.[1] He was, until his election, the Senior Presidential Advisor to the President of Rwanda on the Great Lakes Region.[2]

Youth and education

Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka was born in Rwanda and was raised and educated in Uganda, having left Rwanda in 1962 as a young boy in the aftermath of the 1959 Rwanda Revolution, which precipitated a large exodus of Rwandan refugees to Uganda.[3] He attended Ntare School for his secondary education.[4] He pursued his undergraduate studies at Makerere University in Kampala where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology. He received a Master of Science degree in 1975.[5]

He started working as a lecturer in the Faculty of Science at Makerere University and was soon appointed the Head of Department of Geology in the same Faculty. In early 1981 Mazimhaka moved to Kenya where he briefly worked as a consultant with a mining company before he finally relocated to Canada with his family.[5]

Early career

While in Canada, he came into contact with many Rwandans who were determined as much as he was to return to Rwanda some day. He soon became deeply involved in the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) activities, which had been founded to launch a struggle against the then Rwandan government that had denied its citizens the right to return to their homeland. When the RPF launched an armed war on 1 October 1990 against the Rwandan government, Mazimhaka was appointed RPF's Commissioner for External Relations. He was later elected the Vice-Chairman of RPF in 1993, a position he held until 1998.[6][7]

Mazimhaka was appointed the Minister of Youth, Sports and Cooperatives in July 1994 soon after the RPF had ousted the regime of Juvénal Habyarimana in April 1994.[8] He held this position until 1996, when he was made Minister of Rehabilitation and Social Affairs.[9] A year later he was appointed Minister in the Office of the President until 2000 when he was made a Special Envoy of the President.[5]

It was as a Special Envoy that Mazimhaka's ability in diplomacy was tested most. While dealing with the Rwandan government's policy on the Great Lakes, he was involved in the negotiations that led to several agreements, including the 2002 Pretoria agreement.[10] This agreement outlined the disarmament of the former Rwandan Armed Forces (Ex-FAR) and the Interahamwe militia on the one hand, and the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on the other. He had also previously been involved in negotiations for the formulation and implementation of The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the DRC, while Minister in 1999.[11]

Later activity

Mazimhaka was later an independent consultant in business, international diplomacy and security studies, with a particular interest in Africa. He was also the chairman of the board of Advisors of The Brenthurst Foundation.

Death

Mazimhaka died on the morning of 25 January 2018 in India. He was survived by his wife, Dr. Jolly Rwanyonga Mazimhaka, and their three daughters.[12][13]

References

1. ^{{cite journal|title=AU Signs a Contribution Agreements with the European Community|work=AUC News|publisher=African Union Commission|issue=16|date=February 2007|page=3}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=The Courier: Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-European Union|publisher=Commission of the European Communities|year=2000|page=36}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=Ceres|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|volume=27|issue=1|page=7|year=1995}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Kagame's former school offers 15 scholarships|author=Victor Mugarura|publisher=Rwanda Development Gateway|url=http://www.rwandagateway.org/gateway_new/spip.php?article439|date=December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727230936/http://www.rwandagateway.org/?article439|archive-date=27 July 2011}}
5. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Resource Persons Biographies|publisher=African Development Forum|url=http://www.uneca.org/adfiv/bios/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702201024/http://www.uneca.org/adfiv/bios/index.htm|archive-date=2 July 2012|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}}
6. ^{{cite book|title=Conspiracy to murder: the Rwandan genocide|author=Linda Melvern|publisher=Verso|date=April 2006|page=41|isbn=1-84467-542-4}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=The French betrayal of Rwanda|author=Daniela Kroslak|date=September 2007|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=111–112, 138|isbn=0-253-21974-4}}
8. ^{{cite book|title=Clements' Encyclopedia of World Governments|author=John Clements|year=1990|publisher=Political Research, Inc.|page=34}}
9. ^{{cite book|title=Civil wars, insecurity, and intervention|author=Barbara F. Walter|author2=Jack L. Snyder|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=September 1999|page=142|isbn=0-231-11627-6}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=Secretary-General Hails Pretoria Agreement as Political Milestone for Peace in Congolese Conflict|year=2002|publisher=United Nations Security Council|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sc7479.doc.htm}}
11. ^{{cite book|title=Through Fire with Water: The Roots of Division and the Potential for Reconciliation in Africa|author=Erik Doxtader|author2=Charles Villa-Vicencio|publisher=David Phillip Publishers|date=31 May 2003|page=25|isbn=0-86486-613-5}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://en.igihe.com/news/retired-political-icon-mazimhaka-dies.html|title=Retired political Icon, Mazimhaka dies|date=25 January 2018|work=IGIHE}}
13. ^{{cite news|last1=Mpirwa|first1=Elisee|title=Former politician Patrick Mazimhaka dies|url=http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/228333/|work=The New Times|date=25 January 2018|language=en}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book|title=A people betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide |author=Linda Melvern |edition=ill. |publisher=Zed Books |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-85649-831-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhsRrxZtJwMC&pg=PA53 }} describes Mazimhaka's 1999 recollection of Colonel Theoneste Bagosura's intention at the time of the Arusha accord to plan "Apocalypse deux".
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