Avviser Rwanda-rapport

Frank­rike avviste ons­dag at det var sub­stans i ankla­gene om at franske poli­ti­kere, mili­tære og tje­neste­menn var med­skyl­dige i mas­sa­krene i Rwanda i 1994. Men franske aviser mener ankla­gene ikke kan avvi­ses uten videre.

Regje­rings­tals­mann Romain Nadal sa bare tit­te­len på rap­por­ten til den regje­rings­opp­nevnte kom­mi­sjo­nen er nok til å dis­kva­li­fi­sere den: ‘The Inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion char­ged by the Rwan­dan aut­hori­ties with gat­he­ring evi­dence showing the French state’s involve­ment in the geno­cide com­mit­ted in Rwanda in 1994′.

Men det mente ikke en avis som Le Monde:

The French press sug­ge­sted yester­day, how­e­ver, that the fin­dings of the Rwan­dan com­mis­sion should not be rejected out of hand. The centre-left news­pa­per, Le Monde, said that France “can­not be sure that its sol­di­ers, caught up in a ter­ri­fy­ing war along­side mer­ci­less kil­lers, did not com­mit the mur­ders, rapes and vio­lence of which they are accused.”

The French poli­ti­ci­ans accu­sed by the Rwan­dan com­mis­sion include the late Pre­si­dent Mit­ter­rand, the then Prime Minis­ter Edouard Bal­la­dur and two senior offi­ci­als who later became prime minis­ter – Alain Juppé and Domi­ni­que de Vill­e­pin. The com­mis­sion sug­ge­sted that they encoura­ged an “anti-Tutsi” atti­tude in the then Hutu-dominated govern­ment because Paris feared Ame­ri­can influ­ence on the Tutsi rebel for­ces gat­he­ring over the bor­der in Uganda.

Regje­rin­gen i Kigali vil at en inter­na­sjo­nal dom­stol skal se på ankla­gene mot Frank­rike. Dit er det nok langt frem, men de vil like­vel henge over Frank­rike og bli gjen­stand for gransk­ning fra his­to­ri­kere, jour­na­lis­ter og andre.

France rejects Rwan­dan geno­cide accusations