Habyarimana feared multiple domestic and foreign enemies while engaging in peace negotiations.

Evidence

International authorities, including representatives of the United Nations, sought to intervene. In August 1993, talks in Arusha, Tanzania that had begun in July 1992 produced a peace treaty between Habyarimana and the RPF. In November 1993, the United Nations sent in a small peacekeeping force under Dallaire’s command. In April 1994, African leaders succeeded in bringing together Habyarimana, adjacent Burundi’s president Cyprien Ntaryamira, and a number of other political potentates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to work out a peace plan for Rwanda. But Habyarimana felt threats from the RPF, Uganda, other foreign powers, and domestic enemies as well. So on his way to Tanzania the fourth of April, Habyarimana stopped in Gbadolite, Zaïre (ancestral home and rural capital of Zaïre’s dictator Joseph Mobutu) and appealed to Mobutu for protection (Booh Booh 2005, 132). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 905

Categorization

• XREF: The leader sensing threats from all sides exemplifies Tilly’s point about how rulers’ perceptions of threat shape escalatory contention — relevant to the reader’s regime-asymmetry question.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 905