"Rwandan genocide: France accused of involvement"

Staff Reporter, KIGALI

Rwandan president accuses France of direct involvement in the 1994 genocide.

KIGALI: President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has accused the French of directly taking part in the 1994 genocide in his country by supplying arms and giving orders to those who massacred up to one million people.

Kagame said they supplied weapons and gave orders and instructions to the perpetrators of genocide. According to Kagame the French were there when the genocide took place and trained those who carried it out.

Kagame added that they also directly participated in operations by putting up road blocks to identify people by ethnic origin, punishing the Tutsis and supporting the Hutus.

Kagame was speaking a week after a Paris-based daily newspaper reported that a French police investigation had found him personally responsible for the assassination of his predecessor Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death in a rocket attack on his aeroplane in April 1994 triggered the Rwanda massacres. SAPA

(ChannelAfrica.org)

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