Talk:Pierre-Célestin Rwigema

Abuse of speedy deletion
This article should indeed not have been deleted. See User_talk:Fram. Here is the text of the deleted version, in case anyone wants to merge this with the existing version. &mdash; Sebastian 06:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Pierre-Célestin Rwigema (born 1953 in Gitarama province) is a Rwandan politician.

Rwigema, an ethnic Hutu and economist by education, was a general manager of a private printing company until November 1993. When the Rwandan Genocide occurred in 1994, Rwigema was a member of the moderate faction of the MDR political party. After his resignation as Prime Minister he was accused later of supporting the genocide, but he initially supported the Rwandese Patriotic Front when it overthrew the government and came to power.

Rwigema was the prime minister of Rwanda from August 31 1995 to February 28 2000. During his time in office as prime minister, a no confidence vote was brought against him over problems with educational funds when he was minister of education. According to the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) on 23 December 1999, Rwigema survived the motion, leveled against him by a parliamentary commission of inquiry chaired by Member of Parliament Major Rose Kabuye, on a 34-27 vote. He had to help run the government's handling of the war in the Congo, and prosecution of the perpetrators and recovery from the genocide. Early in 2000, Rwigema announced his resignation. Shortly after he left office, the Hutu president Pasteur Bizimungu also resigned, and the departure of these two officials increased the dominance of the Tutsi vice-president Paul Kagame who became President. Saying that he was being persecuted by the Rwandan government, Rwigema fled to the United States via Germany. The Rwandan government accused him of distributing weapons and chairing a pro-genocide committee in 1994, and a warrant for his arrest was issued in 2001. In 2003, Rwigema won his case of political asylum in the United States Immigration Court with subsequent removal of the warrant arrest and all charges.

Pierre-Célestin Rwigema

It seems that the boxes and categories are basically the same now as in the deleted article, but the text itself is still much less. I understand that there may be no references for such details as his birthplace or his first business, and that some people feel that may be necessary. Wikipedia is in a transition phase now, and I'm not completely happy yet about the need to reference everything. Anyway, here is the old text again in a more readable form: &mdash; Sebastian 19:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Conflict between undeleted version and recent version
(Originally posted at User talk:DragonflySixtyseven)

I'm confused now: The article Pierre-Célestin Rwigema had been recreated after its wrong speedy deletion about two weeks ago, but I don't see anything about the second version. Did you overwrite the existing version? (I don't know how to get it back and compare it; it may have been better than the previous version already.) As it is now, my comment on the talk page does not match the existing article. &mdash; Sebastian 06:04, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I restored all the deleted edits to the article history. There is no missing material. DS (talk) 06:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * But the versions were different - did you merge the differences? (See also above.) &mdash; Sebastian 07:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * No. The previous versions of the article are in the history, but the current version of the article has not changed. I have merged no differences. This is just for historical purposes. DS (talk) 14:26, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I see - thank you for that, and sorry about the false alarm! &mdash; Sebastian 19:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)