Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN Resolution 9291 of 22 June 1994 feeds the Rwandan genocide

i do not know steve brown, but this posting is quite misleading. if you read french, go ahead and read the link to rfi. it does not really say much like what the posting states. to keep it brief: the posting implies operation torquoise was secretly working to rearm the genocidaires. in fact, it created a corridor to allow fleeing hutus to flow into zaire. it alludes to a possible arming of hutu forces, but doesn't state when. in fact, there was no secret about french support for habyarimana's regime. the earliest writing about the genocide by prunier show all that business. this is like scandalmongering to accuse the french of arming hutus committing genocide by linking this to operation torquoise.

it is true the french went into rwanda expecting to find the tutsis were actually committing genocide, and finding to their surprise it was the other way around. whatever we can say about operation torquoise, and challenge its role of allowing all hutus, including the genocidaires to flee, it was not an operation that supported the continuing genocide of tutsis in july. even if the french surreptituously were shipping arms to the hutu regime, that's not what operation torquoise was about, it was about ending the fighting in the southeast and creating a corridor of flight.

my interest in rwanda stems from my role as country specialist for amnesty international for rwanda and burundi, and i've been in that position since 1993. i have no partisan feelings about this, but am opposed to abuses of human rights and of human beings that included not only the genocide of april-june 1994 of primarily tutsis, totalling 800,000 people; but also the 5-6 million who died in zaire from 1996 on, a consequence of the warfare in east congo for which kagame bears an important responsibility. he went on to create essentially an authoritanian police state.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UN Resolution 9291 of 22 June 1994 feeds the Rwandan genocide

 

FRENCH GOVERNMENT RE-ARMED GENOCIDAIRES

Emmanuel Macron's diplomacy with China and Russia is nothing but the warlike rhetoric of a coward.

Before forming the largest army in the world, Macron must answer for the use of the French army during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

"Operation Turquoise is a military operation organized by France and authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 9291 of 22 June 1994 during the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. Its mission is to "end the massacres wherever possible, possibly using force. " NOT REARM GENOCIDAIRES ! That's what the French soldiers of Operation Turquoise did.

A GREAT BETRAYAL !

Even today, 25 years later, the French government still keeps under seal the documents on Operation Turquoise, a UN HUMANITARIAN operation.

In French :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNO--KQi9o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3fiZQBzu4H4yePWkjz2JK2LbGqi-hpGxGnOij6Z3bVXNJZSoaXwJm0I70

http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20170804-genocide-rwanda-fausse-promesse-ouverture-archives-francaises

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