Court to look at French role in 1994 (Rwandan) genocide (The Guardian)

(This is the first time I've ever heard this part of the Rwandan genocide story, god the U.S. Media stinks)

Court to look at French role in 1994 genocide

Kim Willsher in Paris
Tuesday December 27, 2005
The Guardian

The French army has been put under official investigation on charges of having taken part in the Rwandan genocide.

Despite official attempts to block the move, a military court is to look into claims that soldiers serving as part of Operation Turquoise in Rwanda not only failed to stop the killing but participated in the slaughter of about 800,000 people.

Six Rwandans who survived the 1994 genocide have brought the claim of "complicity to genocide and/or crimes against humanity" against French forces. The military court dismissed four of them but is focusing on the cases of two Rwandans. The Rwandans' lawyer, William Bourdon, described it as a "half measure". "This investigation remains at the moment incomplete because of the incomprehensible resistance of the prosecutor to unlimited inquiries," he said. "But it is an important step and the extension of the inquiry into the facts charged by the other four plaintiffs is inevitable," he told AFP.

The majority of those killed in the violence sparked by the death of Juvenal Habyarimana, the then president, in a plane crash were Tutsis massacred by Hutus.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/rwanda/story/0,14451,1673963,00.html?gusrc=rss>
(more at link above)

The US government was apathetic, but the French actually TOOK PART in helping the genocide. And, the French gave the Hutus loads of military equipment.

Champions of human rights my ass.

...when I started reading non-U.S. newspapers on the internet, before that, it just seemed normal. It was all I had ever known.

Good to see someone wrote a book about it. Next maybe they will write a book about the media's parroting the U.S. Government's propaganda on Cuba too.