Thursday, August 14, 2008

Rwanda: Government report documents French role in 1994 genocide

I am a selfish person.

"On August 5, the Rwandan government in Kigali released a 500-page report detailing France’s role in the anti-Tutsi genocide carried out by a French-backed, ethnic-Hutu government in 1994. Based on French sources—President François Mitterrand’s recently published personal papers and TV and press accounts—as well as on testimony by Rwandan witnesses, the report presents extensive evidence of active French collaboration with those planning and carrying out the massacres.

The report’s findings are broadly consistent with the findings of official French investigations into the genocide, but it also explicitly names high-ranking French politicians as responsible for the Rwandan events and presents detailed testimony alleging direct French military involvement in the atrocities. The report implicates 33 French politicians and army officers involved in the genocide and calls for them to face trial. Among those named are the late President François Mitterand and his son Jean-Christophe, then-Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, then-Foreign Minister Alain Juppé and his chief aide, Dominique de Villepin, who went on to become prime minister in 2005-2007."


This will make my list longer after Bush and Blair init?


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