08-06-2008, 10:04 AM
As frost pointed out by NS Rajaram, Western role in this hutu-tutsi affair has a direct parallel in India with Aryan-Dravidian theories.
<b>Genocide report accuses ex-French president</b> (Rwanda)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Rwanda accused senior French officials Tuesday of involvement in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, naming late President Francois Mitterrand and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin among others.
France's Foreign Ministry said officials were still poring over the accusations, which were listed in a report, and they did not immediately have a comment.
Rwanda's government and genocide survivor organizations have often accused France of training and arming the militias and former government troops who led the genocide. But the latest accusations were the most detailed and point to top-level French officials.
During the genocide, which lasted from April to July 1994, Hutu militias slaughtered minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
<b>"French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis," according to the Rwandan report, which was compiled by a government-appointed team of investigators from the Justice Ministry. "French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women."</b>
Mitterrand and Villepin appear on a list of dozens of names at the end of the document, accused of giving French support of "a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature."
French officials have repeatedly denied that France aided or directed the Hutu forces.
Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said his country had no immediate plans to issue indictments, but the report "could be the basis for potential charges against individuals or the state."
In 1998, a French parliamentary panel absolved France of responsibility in the slaughter.
But the lawmakers said that successive French governments had given diplomatic and military support to Rwanda's extremist government between 1990 and 1994.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Genocide report accuses ex-French president</b> (Rwanda)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Rwanda accused senior French officials Tuesday of involvement in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, naming late President Francois Mitterrand and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin among others.
France's Foreign Ministry said officials were still poring over the accusations, which were listed in a report, and they did not immediately have a comment.
Rwanda's government and genocide survivor organizations have often accused France of training and arming the militias and former government troops who led the genocide. But the latest accusations were the most detailed and point to top-level French officials.
During the genocide, which lasted from April to July 1994, Hutu militias slaughtered minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
<b>"French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis," according to the Rwandan report, which was compiled by a government-appointed team of investigators from the Justice Ministry. "French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women."</b>
Mitterrand and Villepin appear on a list of dozens of names at the end of the document, accused of giving French support of "a political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature."
French officials have repeatedly denied that France aided or directed the Hutu forces.
Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said his country had no immediate plans to issue indictments, but the report "could be the basis for potential charges against individuals or the state."
In 1998, a French parliamentary panel absolved France of responsibility in the slaughter.
But the lawmakers said that successive French governments had given diplomatic and military support to Rwanda's extremist government between 1990 and 1994.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->