When will France get right about 1994 genocide against Tutsis?

French militaries trained Interahamwe militia.(Photo/internet)

Year: 2017, Rwanda remembers for a twenty third time. In France, they are busy preparing Presidential election; no one of them cares about big role that was played by French officials in 1994 genocide against Tutsis.

Killing, raping, training Interahamwe militia, supplying arms to government of genocidaires…;testimonies and reports show the role of French officials in planning and executing the 1994 tragedy in Rwanda.

From François Mitterrand to François Hollande, none of them said the truth about evil cooperation that happened between France and Juvenal Habyarimana’s government that pushed French soldiers to stop before barriers in roads and ask identities to scrutinize Hutus and Tutsis.

In history, White men countries include France used to call African continent the lost paradise that needs a light to be modern. On the way to the light, in Rwanda, French illumination turned into dark. And now, Commission of anti-genocide in Rwanda accuses twenty two French military officers to involve in the genocide against Tutsis as perpetrators or accomplices; the stories that France do not want to hear and to be known.

The country that said to be the home of democracy and equitable justice now, denies giving justice to millions of survivors who survived French criminals but they chose to stay silent even though it is on record that French officials, including envoys accredited to Rwanda, were deeply involved in the Genocide preparation.

In addition to that, participation of French ambassadors like Georges Martres (France’s ambassador to Rwanda from 1989 to 1993) and Jean-Michel Marlaud who was ambassador from March 1993 to April 1994 is known.

The world respected land of high thinkers like Jean Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo that I loved so much when I was in secondary school, is now ashamed to be the hell of justice and  night club of killers that France still keep away from justice.

Undoubtedly once in history of France, Palais de l’Elysée was a stronghold of genocide planners and executors but when Republic of France will accept its failures and clean carpets of president palace?

It is good that, France enacted law punishing genocide denial and trivialization but we still wait to see France bringing before court Lieutenant-Colonel Michel Robardey Colonel Gilbert Canovas, Colonel Jacques Rosier and their fellowers and extradite to Rwanda Agatha Kanziga and WencislasMunyeshyaka…

Twenty three years near the end, France still hides behind evil defense, denying and downplaying its role in 1994 genocide against even if facts and evidences are there. Survivors don’t lose hope, what doesn’t kill you, make you stronger. Time will tell the truth about Mitterrand and Habyarimana’s satanic friendship.

President Paul Kagame led Rwanda Patriotic Army (now RDF) to stop the 1994 genocide against Tutsis