Rwanda Accuses France over Genocide
France is in trouble: ‘Rwanda has accused France of having an active, direct role in the African country’s 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were killed.’
A report commissioned by the Rwandan government named 33 senior French military and political figures, among them Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister, and Francois Mitterrand the late former president, who it said should be prosecuted.
It also accused French troops of directly taking part in the slaughter.
“The French support was of a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature,” the report said.
“Considering the gravity of the alleged facts, the Rwandan government asks competent authorities to undertake all necessary actions to bring the accused French political and military leaders to answer for their acts before justice.”
Andrew Tusabe, the acting charge d’affaires for the Rwandan embassy in Washington, told Al Jazeera the report exposed French complicity at the highest levels.
“If you go to the report you will see for yourself how communication was done from the top leadership in Paris to the embassy in Kigali and how different people who had a role in the genocide were housed at the embassy residence,” he said.
According to the report, France actively protected ‘genocidal forces.’ In Rwanda, approximately 800,000 people were killed in a civil war between Hutus and Tutsis. Most of them Tutsis.
It us one of the worst massacres or genocides in modern history. And the West stood by and did nothing.
On the other hand, the report implies that one of the Western countries active in the region did do something; albeit not something deserving of respect. One hopes that an international court will investigate the matter so that the ones responsible for the Hutu genocide on Tutsis can be punished.
I wonder if France will do what it had preached Turkey to do about recognizing the "genocide" …
European Hypocrisy at its best.
When will those Socialist Europeans ever learn that blaming others for genocide is meaningless when Western Europeans committed the worst of them.