Genocide In Rwanda - France Knew?
Posted on January 29, 2008
Filed Under Africa, News
The following report was published earlier on today by Rwanda News Agency. If the findings of this report are found true, this is one of the most disturbing cases of criminal negligence in the modern history.
French Army And Genocide - Documents That Remains Secret to This Day
Here are some excerpts from the report:
RNA can exclusively reveal that it has gotten hold of secret French Ministry of Defence memorandum that the French Parliamentary Mission of Information for Rwanda, in charge of examining French policy on Rwanda from 1990 to 1994, did not deem worth making public.
RNA correspondent in France Mr. Serge Farnel, who acquired the two documents, says they show that the French military and political establishment ensured the media was kept in the dark, and knew that the massacres targeting Tutsis were bound to take place anyway.
One document states the concern of the Army of not showing the media French soldiers avoiding any intervention to stop the mass slaughter to which they are close witnesses. The other document shows evidence that the French Army knew, as early as April 8 1994, that these massacres in Kigali were targeting the Tutsis.
The document that Mr Farnel brought up to us is memorandum n° 018/3°RPIMa/EM/CD (filed secret), that Henri Poncet, a French Colonel, sent on April 27, 1994 to the army CNC.
In this document, Col. Poncet gives a written account of the “Amaryllis Operation”, that he commanded in Rwanda from April 9 to April 14 1994. The operation was intended to evacuate French nationals then present in Kigali, after the murder, three days earlier, of the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana.
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The RNA correspondent says that in the memorandum, Colonel Poncet mentions the other “permanent concern not to show them (the media) the French soldiers not intervening to put an end to the massacres to which they were the close witnesses.”
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But another account written on April 19 1994, by Col. Cussac and Lt. Col. Maurin, concerning “the action of the MTAs (Military Technical Assistants) during operation Amaryllis lets us know that the French Army knew, at least as early as April 8 1994, that the Kigali massacres targeted the Tutsis”.Both French officers indeed described the night of April 7 to April 8 as: “a very restless night, punctuated by lots of shooting at the NCD (National Council for Development - Rwandan Parliament) but also throughout the whole town - executions of Tutsi (sic), and of personalities of the opposition”.
I wonder when Kofi Annan (this criminal who is now in Kenya, trying to broker agreement between the government and the opposition in order to calm the riots that grew even bigger and claimed more lives since he arrived) and Madeleine Albright - two people who know about the Genocide that is about to take place in Rwanda back in 1994, and did not want to act - will be brought to justice?
Read the entire report here
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