October 14, 2005

Another reason to hate France

By Randall Hoven
Running low on reasons to hate France?  Here's another one: Rwanda.  I'm not talking about the blame poured on the U.N. and the West in general for negligence; I'm talking about France actually helping commit genocide. France not only trained and armed the Hutu genocidaires in advance of the genocide, it armed them, gave them safe harbor, refused safe harbor to Tutsis, and sent its own troops into Rwanda to defend the Hutus during the genocide of the Tutsis. The narrative of France's aiding and abetting genocide in Rwanda is well described in the recently published book, The Fate of Africa, by Martin Meredith.  I should point out that Rwanda is not the focus of this book.  In fact, it is only covered in Chapter 27, out of 35 chapters and 752 pages.  The book does not even concentrate on France.  But the plain facts speak loudly enough.  In 1990, the Rwandan government was led by Hutu extremists, headed by president Habyarimana.  French...(Read Full Article)