(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - IAL #99 - Rwanda: 20 years after the horror, nothing is forgotten, nothing is forgiven (fr, pt)

On 6 April 1994, the presidential plane Juvenal Habyarimana (president of Rwanda) is shot 
down by a missile of unknown origin. Hutu Power uses this incident to liquidate some 
opposition forces and start the genocide of the Tutsi minority. In three months, the Mille 
Collines green to cover the blood of a million Tutsis murder. ---- The Tutsi genocide: the 
final solution for the Hutu racist regime to remain in power. ---- The ruling regime on 
the eve of the genocide is the heir of Parmehutu Hutu racist political party supported by 
the Belgian State during decolonization, as the anti-colonialist intellectual elite was 
predominantly Tutsi. Since independence, the Rwandan state is segregationist and regularly 
facilitate the holding of pogroms against "Tutsi threat". In 60-70 years, many Tutsis and 
between Hutus particular went into exile in Uganda.

At the end of the 80s is the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), headed by Paul Kagame (current 
leader of Rwanda). This army's objective for the military conquest of the country and the 
overthrow of the racist institutions of the Rwandan state. Meanwhile, internal opposition 
forces reinforce and invigorate facing an aging regime Habyarimana being in power since 
1973 these threats developing in the political and military elite extremist racist trend. 
Hutu Power. This party is in the early 90s, encourage the formation and training of 
militias "defense of Hutu" Interahamwe militias. Increasingly on the Radio des Milles 
Collines tool of government propaganda, are broadcast calls calling to protect themselves 
against the Tutsi RPF threat and threatening to exterminate "theirs" (understand the 
Tutsis') he continued the war.

Despite all this progress the RPF and the democratic opposition is getting stronger. The 
beleaguered regime will then pour into the horror in the hope of keeping. Colonel Bogosora 
which will supply the assassinated President launches the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) in 
overseeing the massacres by militias in control of roadblocks and the consolidation of 
civil Tutsi, facilitating massacres.

The French State accomplice aware

From the beginning of decolonization, the French State develops economic and diplomatic 
relationships with those in power despite its racist and abuses in nature. In the context 
of these relationships, the French State as the military elite of the Rwandan state, the 
first of them being Colonel Bogosora, strongman of the regime during the genocide.
At the beginning of the 90s, contact the Habyarimana Mitterrand son, then a member of the 
Africa Unit at the Elysee, so that the French State aid against the RPF. Quickly deployed 
600 paratroopers and a plethora of trainers military1: So the French state provides an 
important notoriously racist state support and whose propaganda radio raises the 
possibility of mass massacres. The French government, including members of the African 
cell Elysee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was fully informed of these facts: in 
fact, returning from an international mission in January 1993, Jean Carbonnare begins with 
friends survival.2 an important lobbying. It hopes to influence the support of France to 
the State having genocidal excesses. For this, it meets most of the oil diplomacy time 
without success.

In 1994, the French State remains long hesitating at the attitude to take in relation to 
the ongoing genocide. Worse, May 16, Philippe Joan, a member of the Ministry of 
Cooperation, says that the French State delivers weapons to the FAR, ie the army which 
oversees the genocide. Operation Turquoise supposed humanitarian assistance also helps 
decrease FAR friend Mobutu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

These facts, and many others, clearly demonstrate that the political leaders of the time 
PS and RPR (we live in a cohabitation) are aware of the horror of the Tutsi genocide 
employees.

Support to Rwanda in the heart of the imperialist strategy of the French State
in the 60s, the French state has built a political system in across the African continent 
to maintain its economic interests, including access to oil. The backbone of this 
imperialist policy, whose goal is to steal the economic resources of African countries for 
the benefit of the political and economic elite French is military cooperation. This 
allows to always have a coup ability to establish a friendly regime. Rwanda is at the 
crossroads of the area under imperialist domination and the French domination under 
Anglo-Saxon.

If the Habyarimana regime and the genocidal Hutu Power favor French interests, this is 
absolutely not the case that the RPF diplomatic ties with the United States and the United 
Kingdom. This is the underlying motivation of significant and sustained support of the 
French state to a racist and genocidal regime.

Double genocide thesis denier

If the Holocaust is insulted by Faurisson and Dieudonn?, the Tutsi genocide is often 
played by the theory of the double genocide. There would, in parallel to this thesis Tutsi 
genocide by the FAR and Interahamwe militias, the genocide of Hutu by the RPF. If there 
were massacres and summary executions by the RPF, there was no mass extermination plan or 
even desire to exterminate a population on ethnic grounds.

This thesis is mainly supported by journos operetta, Pierre P?an, and is relayed by 
Rwandans in exile in France which discharge their venom on internet3 or in sp?cialis?e4 
press. Parallel double genocide, the RPF is accused of murdering Habyarimana5, allowing a 
tower ideological sleight, to say that the RPF Tutsi understand, is responsible for the 
genocide of the Tutsi. However, Bogosora who planned the organization of genocide and 
developed identifying Tutsi would have had a minor role in this case! There are other 
variants deniers, self-genocide Rwandan people against himself, spontaneous genocide from 
ancestral rancor between the Hutu Tutsi, pure and simple negation: there have been some 
killings but no more than elsewhere ... The revisionist theories benefit from some 
pictures and testimonies including international as well as the convenience of the French 
State did not really want that we put in bare responsibility in the genocide.

Against horror, fight again and again

Unlike the Holocaust, which was carried out with an industrial tool, the Tutsi genocide 
was performed with crude weapons, for essential machetes and clubs nails. Despite limited 
resources, logistics genocide has been very effective since there was a higher than 
Auschwitz6 daily removal rate five times.

therefore face this horror, we must first fight against oblivion Last genocide that 
humanity has endured in recalling events and chronology. Fight against forgetting also 
means fighting against deniers crap. We must fight against impunity in numerous genocidal 
France, which the State refuses extradition to Rwanda or before the International Tribunal 
for the Rwanda.7. We must fight against impunity for genocide in exile but also against 
those responsible for the French state as Hubert Vedrine, secretary general of the Elysee 
during the genocide, and that gives us (we not ask so much!) Its perspective on the 
international regular.

We must also fight against the deep source of genocide, imperialism of the French state in 
Africa, more commonly known as Fran?afrique. Destroy the mechanisms that have covered and 
armed genocide is probably the best tributes to the victims of genocide. Finally, we must 
fight against the garbage, as Mitterrand said in the summer of 1994, think "in those 
countries where genocide is not too important." They stop sowing misery and desolation to 
promote their interests at our expense in Rwanda and elsewhere.

Jura link

1. Fran?afrique, the longest scandal R?bublique , p. 17 Fran?ois-Xavier Verschave
2. Association against Fran?afrique
3. http://www.rwamucyo.com site of a Rwandan doctor crusade against the Kigali regime and 
in particular "lies" about the genocide.
4. P?an is often quoted in Jeune Afrique.
5. There is no certainty about the responsibilities of the assassination of Habyarimana, 
but the most likely theory involve the Hutu Power who thought the president too mou 
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/01/18/la-verite-contre-le-negationnisme-du-genocide-du-rwanda_1630890_3232.html
6. Rwanda: Genocide , p. 312-317, G?rard Prunier
7. There are trials that open in France anyway, especially with the pugnacity Survival 
http://survie.org/genocide/justice-637/article/simbikangwa-condamne-le-genocide-4640