Fellow Citizens of the world:
In reaction to the article bellow. ....I say:
The fact is that a Super Power such as France has the means and let alone the capability to conduct a thorough independent investigation surrounding the death of former Rwanda President Juvenial Habyalima and His Burundi counterpart in that fateful plane crash which took place in 1994.
Indeed, the events which subsequently triggered the Genocide in Rwanda where close to 800,000 people died, must be investigated thoroughly by all means necessary.
The French should therefore be commended for a job well done. ..and for exposing the truth without fear or favor.
Kagame's reaction to the French investigation is pretty much expected. Kagame can throw tantrums all he wants... he can accuse the French of this and that... But the fact remains.. ....That there is concrete evidence which pretty much seems to suggest that Kagame played a very prominent role in the Assassination of President Habyalima.
Kagame, therefore share in the blame for the Genocide which took place in Rwanda. He too must be tried courts in Arusha. For this is the only fare way to treat all the participants who were involved in the genocide of Rwanda.
Kagama cannot and should not be allowed to escape Justice!
Matek
Rwanda's Kagame slams France over genocide report
By Arthur Asiimwe
KIGALI, March 13 (Reuters) - President Paul Kagame angrily accused France on Saturday of reviving a controversy about Rwanda's 1994 genocide ahead of its 10th anniversary to draw attention from what he called Paris's role in the slaughter.
Kagame, speaking to reporters on his return from a visit to Belgium, suggested the French government was behind a Le Monde report accusing him of launching a 1994 rocket attack that shot down the plane of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana.
"It (the Le Monde report) is about creating a diversion from the commemoration of the genocide and trying to minimise it and trying to escape from the (French) responsibility in the genocide," Kagame said.
The newspaper reported this week that a French investigation concluded Kagame gave direct orders for the rocket attack on April 6, 1994, which killed Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, who was also on board the plane.
The assassinations triggered the slaughter of some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates during 100 days of bloodshed. It also plunged central Africa into a decade of war, an upheaval that is only now slowly abating.
Rwanda will stage elaborate 10th anniversary commemorations next month.
Kagame was then the head of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front, a Tutsi-led force that in 1994 ousted the government, a French-backed Hutu regime that had carefully planned and then carried out the genocide.
Relations between France and Rwanda's Tutsi-led government have been strained ever since.
"They want to revive the quarrels and so we are going to have the quarrels. That's what they want," Kagame said.
"Our relations (with Paris), given the background and what they have come up with, cannot be worse. We cannot make it any worse than we have it now. But we are not going to be deterred or diverted from our main course of remembering what happened 10 years ago."
Kagame also reiterated longstanding accusations made by him in the past that a French military force that entered Rwanda two months after the killings started had aided and abetted the massacres and actually took part in some of the killings.
France, which says it sent in the force on a humanitarian mission to help stop the killings, denies the accusation.
Kagame reiterated his denial of the Le Monde accusation and added: "The most important thing is that the French now expose exactly the direct role they played in killing Rwandans in the genocide. They directly helped people to kill and even themselves took part in the killings."
The newspaper reports were based on a six-year inquiry by French anti-terrorism Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who was asked to look into the crash by family of the plane's French crew.
The report has not been officially released, but Le Monde's report appears to have been based on a leaked copy.
No official inquiry has ever been made into events surrounding the shooting down of Habyarimana's plane, only deepening the mystery of who is responsible.
03/13/04 14:05 ET
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
