France accused of Genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3515512.stm

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused French people of "direct involvement" in the 1994 genocide.

He told the French state-owned RFI radio that they provided weapons and training, and gave orders to those who killed some 800,000 people.

He said the "French elements" were acting on government orders.

The president was speaking a week after a French daily reported a police report that blamed him for a rocket attack that precipitated the massacre.

"Sooner or later they will have to account for their actions, either before a French court or the international court," Mr Kagame said.

Report

The report - extracts of which appeared in Le Monde - concludes that Mr Kagame gave direct orders for the rocket attack on then President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane. He has denied the claim.

Mr Kagame was head of the mainly-Tutsi rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) at the time.

Burundi's then President Cyprien Ntaryamira was also killed in the rocket attack.

Le Monde said the accusation against Mr Kagame is contained in a 220-page report drawn up by police acting for France's leading anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere.

The police are investigating the deaths of several French citizens on the plane.
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Cywr,a newspaper report must not be the reason for a president to accuse a whole country(which has also a seat in the security council)In my opinion.So that answer couldnt satisfy me.

while News, published in recent days in Le Monde Gazette, which observes international diplomacy closely, is an indicator that hot days are waiting for France.

France Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by making a statement on August, 2nd , 2004, explained that she takes into consideration that the fact that Ruanda has established a commission so as to reveal the role of France in the genocide experienced in Ruanda.

Thats because maybe the country France grabs more attention in comprasion to Rwanda.Das ist keine Frage,France is more popular in the world arena.

The Rwandian army also isin the Congolese Conflict,which is also linked in history to a neighbour of France:Belgium

The Rwandan genocide, according to most researchers, is one of the prime examples of non-imposed (externally) violence, but one that is the result of internal struggle mostly. Although there seem to be operations of French and American secret services and of course the common arms trade by the same countries (and many others, including the ex-Soviets) the truth is the locals didn't really need much assistance in that.

Unlike Nigeria, where the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people and the forced deportation of a million and a half, where the result of the actions of several great oil companies (Exxon and Talisman are the prime examples) and the governments that served their interests (US and Canadian, more than any other).