Friday, August 8, 2008
Calls For France To Rethink Its Africa Role -- Fallout From the Rwanda Genocide
From The Christian Science Monitor:
A Rwandan report this week charged Paris with complicity in the 1994 genocide.
Paris - A bombshell of a report by Rwanda this week implicating high-ranking French officials in the arming and training of Hutu forces that committed genocide in Rwanda – could have been issued last November. President Paul Kagame sat on the 500-page study, approved by the Rwandan Senate, for months.
It was a time of some bonhomie with France. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, much liked in Kigali, were working on a new rapprochement policy – after Rwanda broke all ties with France in 2006 over a French judge's indictment of Mr. Kagame for allegedly ordering an assassination in 1994.
Kagame, a Tutsi, appears to have lost patience with France. He had hoped that the 2006 indictment would be renounced and that high-level Hutus still living in France would be deported to Rwanda to face genocide charges.
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My Comment: When France starts to expel the thugs and monsters who started the Rwandan genocide from their country, that is when France will start to redeem itself in the eyes of Africa and in the eyes of its own citizens. Unfortunately, this is not going to happen. The French are .... (a heavy sigh) .... the French are going to be French..
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