Le Parquet général rwandais est "en train d'examiner" les conclusions de l'enquête sur le rôle présumé de la France dans le génocide de 1994, en vue de voir quelle suite donner à ce document rendu public le 5 août, a-t-il annoncé vendredi à l'AFP.
"Nous sommes en train d'examiner le document. Une fois cet examen terminé, nous verrons quelle suite donner à ce rapport", a indiqué à l'AFP le Procureur général du Rwanda, Martin Ngoga.
Dans un communiqué rendu public le jour de la publication du rapport, le gouvernement rwandais avait "enjoint les instances habilitées à entreprendre les actions requises afin d'amener les responsables politiques et militaires français incriminés à répondre de leurs actes devant la justice".

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Le Parquet général rwandais est "en train d'examiner" les conclusions de l'enquête sur le rôle présumé de la France dans le génocide de 1994, en vue de voir quelle suite donner à ce document rendu public le 5 août, a annoncé vendredi le Procureur général du Rwanda, Martin Ngoga.
"Nous sommes en train d'examiner le document. Une fois cet examen terminé, nous verrons quelle suite donner à ce rapport", a t-il indiqué à la presse. Dans un communiqué rendu public le jour de la publication du rapport, le gouvernement rwandais avait "enjoint les instances habilitées à entreprendre les actions requises afin d'amener les responsables politiques et militaires français incriminés à répondre de leurs actes devant la justice".
Selon l'Onu, le génocide de 1994 a fait environ 800.000 morts parmi la minorité tutsie et les Hutus. Le ministre français de la Défense Hervé Morin a depuis jugé "absolument insupportables" ces accusations de Kigali contre la France et a assuré que les militaires français n'avaient "rien à se reprocher".

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Admiral Lanxade's lie, by Serge Farnel



Paris, Aug 7th 2008 (Rwanda News Agency, RNA) - In an interview given this Thursday, Aug, 7th 2008, to journalist Olivier Rogez for “Radio France International” (RFI), French Admiral Jacques Lanxade, Army Chief of Staff in 1994 at the time of the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda, answered the accusations formulated against him within the report emanating from the “Rwanda Independent National Commission” concerning the involvement of France in the said genocide, a document made public on Aug, 5th 2008.



Referring to an article published in the Feb 2nd, 1998 issue of the French daily “Liberation”, the report mentions that “according to private statements made to journalists by a French officer who wished to remain unnamed, the orders not to stop the massacres were given by Admiral Lanxade and/or by General Christian Quesnot.” The document states an extract of the said private statements: “Before leaving for Rwanda , I used to come up to Lanxade to collect my notes, then take my orders from the Private Staff of the President of the Republic”.



Speaking on RFI, the French Admiral, today retired, denied giving such an order as not to stop the first massacres that occurred at the time when, starting on April 9th 1994, operation Amaryllis was deployed to evacuate foreign residents.



“This is totally untrue”, he declared on RFI, before proceeding: “The purpose of Amaryllis was to evacuate the French, and more generally, the foreign residents of Kigali in a period of extreme tension, but, according to the Admiral, there was at that time “no hint (of massacres), there were combats in Kigali between the Rwanda Army and the RPF”. (Rwandan Patriotic Front)

The presumably involved officer added that “as in all these combats, in these regions, there were on both sides exactions and the mission of the French army was most clearly: you must evacuate foreign residents and then draw back. That is what we did.”



But, on Jan 25th 2008, the “Rwanda News Agency” (RNA) had revealed, through its correspondent in France, who is no other but the author of the present article, a confidential note that the French parliamentary mission of information on Rwanda, had not, as far as it was concerned, deemed worth while making public in 1998, and which in a perspective with the latest declarations of Admiral Lanxade, shows the purpose of the latter to mislead public opinion.


This note (N° 018/3°RPIMa/EM/CD), that Officer Henri Poncet, then commanding operation Amaryllis, had sent him on April 27th 2008, expresses the “permanent preoccupation of not showing the media French soldiers limiting access to mustering points only to foreigners on Rwanda territory.” The document indicates these are the provisions consigned in Directive n°008/DEF/EMA of April 10th.



In the same note, Poncet states the other “permanent care of not showing the media French soldiers not intervening to have the massacres they were close witnesses of be stopped.” And it is clearly to his superior, Admiral Lanxade, that this note, in which he expressed his respect of the orders consisting in not intervening to have the massacres stopped, was sent.



And Admiral Lanxade could not ignore that it was then a genocide against the Tutsi. Indeed, the very order of launching Amaryllis Operation, dated April 8th 1994, states that “to avenge the death of president Habyarimana (...) the members of the (Rwanda) presidential Guard carried out as soon as the 7th in the morning reprisal actions in the town of Kigali” The document also states clearly that these reprisals involved the “elimination of the Tutsi”.



Thus, the order of Operation Amaryllis states that the French Staff, from where it originates, at least knew as soon as April 8th, that the genocide against the Tutsi had just started and that it was organised by the temporary Rwanda government, formed within the very French embassy in Kigali . The recent declaration of Lanxade according to which there would have been then “exactions on both sides” is hence, with regards to the content of the order of Amaryllis Operation, equally emanating from the French Defence Ministry, a sheer lie.

The “Rwanda News Agency” is hence able to establish that, to answer the accusations it is the object of within the report made by the Rwanda independent national Commisssion on the involvement of France in the genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda, Jacques Lanxade, the former French Army Chief of Staff, bluntly lied, on that 7th April 2008, speaking on the French Radio Station “RFI”. (END)



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Serge Farnel y explique en quoi la stratégie du déni est ou non en mesure d'empêcher que soient effectuées les réparations tant attendues par les victimes de ce génocide.



Le conférencier en aborde ainsi les différentes formes, dont celle consistant à nier la participation active de la France officielle de l'époque dans le Crime des crimes.



Il aborde également, de façon prémonitoire, le "déni de légitimité" de la Commission Mucyo, seule façon de tenter de disqualifier son rapport qui a l’inconvenance de consigner des témoignages accablants relatifs à la participation active de l’armée française dans le génocide à l’encontre des Tutsi.



Pour avoir assisté, à Kigali, à l'ensemble des auditions des "témoins de fait" de la commission rwandaise, l’expérience de Farnel dépasse la simple lecture de son rapport.



Une commission qu'il a également accompagnée sur les collines rwandaises de Bisesero à la rencontre de témoins, victimes et génocidaires, de ce qui a été, à l’instar de la révolte du ghetto de Varsovie, un des rares moments de révolte organisée des Tutsi face à leur mort programmée.



Le conférencier précise enfin les compétences des différentes juridictions nationales ou internationales susceptibles de traduire de hauts dirigeants français en justice, eu égard à ce qui est reproché à la France officielle, ce notamment au sein du rapport Mucyo.


Une intervention qu'on gagnera donc à écouter dans la perspective d'une suite judiciaire fondée sur le contenu de ce rapport.