FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
French linked to Rwanda slaughter
Evidence indicates U.S. knew of impending massacre but did nothing


Posted: January 11, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By F. Michael Maloof
©2007WorldNetDaily.com

Fearing a loss of influence in the region, France – with the knowledge of the U.S. – helped rekindle the civil war in Rwanda that led to the massacre of more than 1 million people in 1994, according to a growing body of evidence. New information indicates the French helped renew a civil war between the then Hutu-run government of President Juvenal Habyarimana and minority Tutsis in order to forestall implementation of the Arusha Accords.

Signed Aug. 4, 1993, the peace agreement signaled an end to the long-running conflict between the Hutus, represented by the Rwanda government under Habyarimana, and the Tutsis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF.

The Arusha Accords also stripped considerable power from the French-backed ethnic Hutu president Habyarimana. Most of the power was vested in the Transitional Broad Based Government that was to include the RPF and other political parties until elections could be held. According to sources, the French were not happy with the peace agreement, concerned that Habyarimana was caving in to international pressure and opening the door to further Anglophone influence in the area.
Implementation of the agreement would have significantly weakened France's influence in the region. The evidence of French complicity and involvement in the 1994 Tutsi massacre has emerged during proceedings of the United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, indicating:

• French troops trained the Interahamwe militia of Hutu extremists.
  
  
• France supplied shipments of arms well in advance of the genocide in anticipation of such a massacre.
  
  
• The French government has refused to prosecute Hutu members who fled to France following the massacre.

The U.N. Tribunal is expected shortly to announce its findings.
Sources contend the U.S., knowing France was involved in the massacre, took no action. The U.S. had been monitoring all communications, including diplomatic communiqués, but did not want to create a crisis in Franco-American relations over a country regarded to have little strategic interest.
In fact, U.S. policy makers at the time interpreted the dispute between the Hutus and Tutsis as a "tribal conflict," in an effort to avoid use of the word "genocide."
For more details, see the complete report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Vubundada_Kandaba wrote: _______


So the French played crazywhich cause hundreds of thousand of innocent people their lives.

But the real culprits are the Belgians who constructed ahalf bakedcastesystem and then left Rwandians to fightwith themselves.

Its always been clear that foreign countries helped the situation in Rwanda develop. However, regardless of whether guns were put in the hands of the murderers, they never had to do that to their own people.

But there was a system created before they were given theweapons, which only made things worst. Putting one ethnic group against the next.

I totally understand what your saying but if some white man came and told you that you wee a hutu and you cousin was a tutsi and started spreading rumours about what he was and was not supposed to have said about you would you listen and years later go and chop your cousin and his family up or would you see sense? The white man has got a lot to answer for in Rwanda but there's a time when we have to realise that many, many Africans were also responsible for this slaughter. For example when I was in school and two people got into a fight,if they said that a third parter was sh*t stiring and caused thefightthen that person would be pulled up but the two people fighting weren't let off the hook because they should've been smarter.Not all Rwandanswere innocent victims, many of them jumped at the chance to kill their own neighbours over old rivalries and I cannot give them a pass over it.

I don't disagreeabout whatyou're saying, I was justputting some light on the wholematter. The genocide in Rwanda was many many years in the making, and anyone who lived under that system was probably not thinking thesameway as most peoplein regular society. Even though this could've happen anywhere in the world. Look at the Northern Ireland conflict for example,which put people from different religions against each other for many years and was fueled by certain groups.