01. August 2004 · Comments Off on French Participation in Genocide? · Categories: World

The Rwandan government is launching its own investigation to figure out just what role the French played in the genocide of Tutsis:

Paris denies responsibility – although it has admitted supporting Rwanda’s former Hutu-led government.

The current Rwandan government, which took over after the genocide, argues that Paris knowingly armed the killers and provided an escape route after their defeat.

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France has also been accused of allowing perpetrators of the genocide to escape when it launched a operation in south-western Rwanda in June 1994.

I doubt this investigation will find anything of note. The French supported the Hutu government, which would automatically implicate them in the genocide to many Tutsis. I think it’s safe to say that the French indirectly supported the Hutus, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they allowed a few to escape, but direct support doesn’t seem likely. With the French, though, you never know.

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