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Peter Gourevitch, in his 1998 award-winning book "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed with our Families"--provides ample documentation of French complicity in the Hutu (French speaking) Power movement from the beginning, and of France's work to impede Tutsi (English speaking) resistance to the genocide.

Few weeks ago an unprecedented public inquiry into France's role in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda held hearings in Kigali, where the French army was accused of complicity in the massacre of Tutsi and modreate Hutu, this obviously greatly worried the French elite and the French justice system, which had previously cleared France of any responsibility.

The seven-person examining commission in Kiali, Tanzania, is hearing testimony from 20 survivors, some claiming serious human rights abuses, including rape and murder, by the French military. The commission is also examining Operation Tur-quoise, the 1994 French military intervention that was ostensibly aimed at saving Rwandan lives, but in effect shelted the murderous Hutu millitias and handed Tutsi civilians to massacre.

During the Genocide, French diplomats told the UN many had died as civil war casualties, diverting attention from systematic massacres of civilians. France refused to allow the Council to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention to try to stop the genocide To this date France refuses to acknowledge any responsibility and has failed to offer an appology to the relatives of the nearly a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, whose lives she helped to take just ten years ago.

Source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200611130420.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6079428.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/24/france.rwanda.reut/index.html

All of this is old news, which I included for those of you who are unfamiliar with the situation. The reason why I write this post is a news that today was broadcast on BBC.

In its effort to impeded justice in Rwanda and block the Rwandan governments aim to clear the truth about the French involvement in Africa's worst Genocide, France has issued arrest warrants against close aides of the Rwandan President falsely implicating him in involvement in bringing down the plane of the former president, the very event that in fact gave pretext to the Hutus to start killing the Tutsis and triggered the Genocide. The French motive is clear - President Paul Kagames force, the Patritic Front of Rwanda, in fact stopped the Genocide, which ended the French colonial legacy in Rwanda. It is thanks to President Kagame that there still exist Tutsi's in Rwanda today, which France obviously would have seen completely eradicatd.

Quote:
"The French are trying to appease their conscience for their role in the genocide and are now trying to find someone else to hold responsible for their acts here," Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Murigande told Reuters news agency.
"They have panicked because they know their acts during the genocide were going to be exposed to the rest of the world in the on-going probe commission here," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6168280.stm

I find the French attempts to deny their complicity in the Rwandan Genocide, hide the evidnce and persecute those that seek out the truth very disgraceful and very worrisome. Somebody must tell France that the colonial era in Africa is over, and Rwanda is not a French suburb where police can arrest anybody just for the color of their skin. France, shame on you!!!

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France Issues Rwanda Warrants
The scandal continues.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6177370.stm

[bg_turk]

I am quite honestly furious at the situation. President Paul Kagame, who literally saved the remainder of the Tutsis in Rwanda from total extermination, is about to be tried for crimes against humanity by those whose hands are still dripping with the blood of the Rwandan people. I spit on French justice. I hope Turkey and the rest of the world, if they have any consience left, will boycott the international arrest warrants that this French judge has shamelessly issued.

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