On 6 April 1994, the presidential plane Juvenal Habyarimana (president of Rwanda) is shot
down by a missile of unknown origin. Hutu Power uses this incident to liquidate some
opposition forces and start the genocide of the Tutsi minority. In three months, the Mille
Collines green to cover the blood of a million Tutsis murder. ---- The Tutsi genocide: the
final solution for the Hutu racist regime to remain in power. ---- The ruling regime on
the eve of the genocide is the heir of Parmehutu Hutu racist political party supported by
the Belgian State during decolonization, as the anti-colonialist intellectual elite was
predominantly Tutsi. Since independence, the Rwandan state is segregationist and regularly
facilitate the holding of pogroms against "Tutsi threat". In 60-70 years, many Tutsis and
between Hutus particular went into exile in Uganda.
At the end of the 80s is the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), headed by Paul Kagame (current
leader of Rwanda). This army's objective for the military conquest of the country and the
overthrow of the racist institutions of the Rwandan state. Meanwhile, internal opposition
forces reinforce and invigorate facing an aging regime Habyarimana being in power since
1973 these threats developing in the political and military elite extremist racist trend.
Hutu Power. This party is in the early 90s, encourage the formation and training of
militias "defense of Hutu" Interahamwe militias. Increasingly on the Radio des Milles
Collines tool of government propaganda, are broadcast calls calling to protect themselves
against the Tutsi RPF threat and threatening to exterminate "theirs" (understand the
Tutsis') he continued the war.
Despite all this progress the RPF and the democratic opposition is getting stronger. The
beleaguered regime will then pour into the horror in the hope of keeping. Colonel Bogosora
which will supply the assassinated President launches the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) in
overseeing the massacres by militias in control of roadblocks and the consolidation of
civil Tutsi, facilitating massacres.
The French State accomplice aware
From the beginning of decolonization, the French State develops economic and diplomatic
relationships with those in power despite its racist and abuses in nature. In the context
of these relationships, the French State as the military elite of the Rwandan state, the
first of them being Colonel Bogosora, strongman of the regime during the genocide.
At the beginning of the 90s, contact the Habyarimana Mitterrand son, then a member of the
Africa Unit at the Elysee, so that the French State aid against the RPF. Quickly deployed
600 paratroopers and a plethora of trainers military1: So the French state provides an
important notoriously racist state support and whose propaganda radio raises the
possibility of mass massacres. The French government, including members of the African
cell Elysee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was fully informed of these facts: in
fact, returning from an international mission in January 1993, Jean Carbonnare begins with
friends survival.2 an important lobbying. It hopes to influence the support of France to
the State having genocidal excesses. For this, it meets most of the oil diplomacy time
without success.
In 1994, the French State remains long hesitating at the attitude to take in relation to
the ongoing genocide. Worse, May 16, Philippe Joan, a member of the Ministry of
Cooperation, says that the French State delivers weapons to the FAR, ie the army which
oversees the genocide. Operation Turquoise supposed humanitarian assistance also helps
decrease FAR friend Mobutu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
These facts, and many others, clearly demonstrate that the political leaders of the time
PS and RPR (we live in a cohabitation) are aware of the horror of the Tutsi genocide
employees.
Support to Rwanda in the heart of the imperialist strategy of the French State
in the 60s, the French state has built a political system in across the African continent
to maintain its economic interests, including access to oil. The backbone of this
imperialist policy, whose goal is to steal the economic resources of African countries for
the benefit of the political and economic elite French is military cooperation. This
allows to always have a coup ability to establish a friendly regime. Rwanda is at the
crossroads of the area under imperialist domination and the French domination under
Anglo-Saxon.
If the Habyarimana regime and the genocidal Hutu Power favor French interests, this is
absolutely not the case that the RPF diplomatic ties with the United States and the United
Kingdom. This is the underlying motivation of significant and sustained support of the
French state to a racist and genocidal regime.
Double genocide thesis denier
If the Holocaust is insulted by Faurisson and Dieudonn?, the Tutsi genocide is often
played by the theory of the double genocide. There would, in parallel to this thesis Tutsi
genocide by the FAR and Interahamwe militias, the genocide of Hutu by the RPF. If there
were massacres and summary executions by the RPF, there was no mass extermination plan or
even desire to exterminate a population on ethnic grounds.
This thesis is mainly supported by journos operetta, Pierre P?an, and is relayed by
Rwandans in exile in France which discharge their venom on internet3 or in sp?cialis?e4
press. Parallel double genocide, the RPF is accused of murdering Habyarimana5, allowing a
tower ideological sleight, to say that the RPF Tutsi understand, is responsible for the
genocide of the Tutsi. However, Bogosora who planned the organization of genocide and
developed identifying Tutsi would have had a minor role in this case! There are other
variants deniers, self-genocide Rwandan people against himself, spontaneous genocide from
ancestral rancor between the Hutu Tutsi, pure and simple negation: there have been some
killings but no more than elsewhere ... The revisionist theories benefit from some
pictures and testimonies including international as well as the convenience of the French
State did not really want that we put in bare responsibility in the genocide.
Against horror, fight again and again
Unlike the Holocaust, which was carried out with an industrial tool, the Tutsi genocide
was performed with crude weapons, for essential machetes and clubs nails. Despite limited
resources, logistics genocide has been very effective since there was a higher than
Auschwitz6 daily removal rate five times.
therefore face this horror, we must first fight against oblivion Last genocide that
humanity has endured in recalling events and chronology. Fight against forgetting also
means fighting against deniers crap. We must fight against impunity in numerous genocidal
France, which the State refuses extradition to Rwanda or before the International Tribunal
for the Rwanda.7. We must fight against impunity for genocide in exile but also against
those responsible for the French state as Hubert Vedrine, secretary general of the Elysee
during the genocide, and that gives us (we not ask so much!) Its perspective on the
international regular.
We must also fight against the deep source of genocide, imperialism of the French state in
Africa, more commonly known as Fran?afrique. Destroy the mechanisms that have covered and
armed genocide is probably the best tributes to the victims of genocide. Finally, we must
fight against the garbage, as Mitterrand said in the summer of 1994, think "in those
countries where genocide is not too important." They stop sowing misery and desolation to
promote their interests at our expense in Rwanda and elsewhere.
Jura link
1. Fran?afrique, the longest scandal R?bublique , p. 17 Fran?ois-Xavier Verschave
2. Association against Fran?afrique
3. http://www.rwamucyo.com site of a Rwandan doctor crusade against the Kigali regime and
in particular "lies" about the genocide.
4. P?an is often quoted in Jeune Afrique.
5. There is no certainty about the responsibilities of the assassination of Habyarimana,
but the most likely theory involve the Hutu Power who thought the president too mou
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/01/18/la-verite-contre-le-negationnisme-du-genocide-du-rwanda_1630890_3232.html
6. Rwanda: Genocide , p. 312-317, G?rard Prunier
7. There are trials that open in France anyway, especially with the pugnacity Survival
http://survie.org/genocide/justice-637/article/simbikangwa-condamne-le-genocide-4640
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