From the throne to food stamps: Last king of Rwanda, Kigeli V, dies aged 80 in American exile where he lived on welfare in DC suburbs Kigeli V ruled the east African nation for less than a year before being forced into exile and finally settling in the United States Born Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa, he came to power in 1959 but clashed with the Belgian colonial power The king began a life of exile in east Africa, including Kenya and Uganda, before leaving for America and settling in Washington suburbs in 1992 By 2013, he was living in subsidised housing, on food stamps and donations in Virginia, happy to hand out chocolates to neighbors' children
Mena: I dont know if there is an historic or occult symbolism when an African King dies in Washington DC. it was very sad that Rwadan King Kigeli V was living on welfare.
Kigeli V ruled the east African nation for less than a year before being forced into exile and finally settling in the United States. He passed away early Sunday aged 80
In exile, he lived in subsidised housing, on food stamps and donations, in Oakton, Virginia (pictured in Maryland in 1994)
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Kigeli V is a Tutsi, but the tradition is that the monarchy represent all Rwandans of all ethnicities
Since 1994 and the rise to power of current President Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) — which emerged from a former Tutsi rebellion — the issue of a potential return by the king was regularly brought up. Every effort to do so failed
King Kigeli had come to power after succeeding his half-brother Mutara III, who died in unclear circumstances on the eve of the Hutu 'social revolution,' which sent hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsi fleeing
While in the United States, the exiled monarch led the King Kigeli V Foundation to aid Rwandan refugees
