Sun, Jan 14, 2007 - Page 17 News List

Rwanda genocide - France's shame?

Rwanda's civil war saw 800,000 Tutsis slaughtered by the Hutus armed and supported by France. Now, 13 years later, is Paris once again meddling in the country's affairs?

By Chris McGreal  /  THE GUARDIAN , KIGALI, RWANDA

The weight of circumstantial evidence suggests that the Hutu extremists, and not Kagame, killed Habyarimana. But some say the RPF still faces a moral indictment over the genocide. Sam Kanyemera, the former colonel indicted by Bruguiere, says it is true that, fiven the long history of massacres -1959, 1964, 1973 - the RPF knew that the invasion would put the lives of ordinary Tutsis at risk. But he says it could never have predicted the genocide. "We knew some people would by killed like goats, but that's why we were fighting, to stop that."

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