Lando Ndasingwa

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Landoald 'Lando' Ndasingwa (died 7 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician, leader of the moderate Parti libéral du Rwanda. He was killed in the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.

Ndasingwa was a former professor at the University of Rwanda and ethnic Tutsi. He was granted the portfolio of Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the Habyarimana transitional government put in place after the Arusha Accords.

On February 17, 1994, UNAMIR commander Roméo Dallaire received information of a plot to assassinate Ndasingwa and Joseph Kavaruganda, both prominent moderate members of the transitional government. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Dallaire claims that he informed them of this plot, and neither were surprised.

On April 7, following Habyarimana's death, Ndasingwa and his Canadian wife, Hélène, both graduates of Montréal's McGill University, were abducted from their house along with their two children by the government's Presidential Guard, despite being under UNAMIR protection. All were subsequently killed.

Ndasingwa managed a hotel, Hotel Chez Lando, which is now maintained by his sister, Anne-Marie Kantengwa.