Jean Marie Higiro

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Jean Marie Vianney Higiro born c. 1950 was the Director of the Rwandan Information Office (ORINFOR), a government corporation that run Radio Rwanda, Rwandan Television and state controlled media in the Republic of Rwanda.

[edit] Early life

Doctor Higiro was born in Rwanda under Belgian rule. He matriculated at the National University of Rwanda. Later, he studied abroad in North America.

[edit] Rwandan Civil War

During the Civil war Doctor Higiro was targeted for his "moderate beliefs" and his enemies plotted to murder him. He end up escaping with his immediate family.

[edit] Post Civil War

Doctor Higiro settled in Massachusetts and became a communications professor at Western New England College, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Doctor Higiro's time in the U.S. has not been uneventful. In the late 1990's, his enemies attempted to murder him in the U.S., but they did not succeed.

Was Dr. Higiro involved as a perpetrator in the genocide? No. He was appointed director of the Rwandan Information Office on July 31, 1993 by the coalition government led by Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. He left Kigali on April 9 and arrived in Nairobi on April 10, 1994 during a US embassy evacuation. He left Nairobi for the United States on July 19, 1994 the day he was supposed to be sworn in as minister of information in the RPF led government headed by Faustin Twagiramungu.