Why did France let the Rwandan genocidaires flee in July 1994?
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French soldiers upon their arrival near Butare, Rwanda, July 3, 1994, ten days after the start of Operation Turquoise.
HOCINE ZAOURAR / ARCHIVES / AFP
By: Christophe Boisbouvier Follow
31 min
A somewhat special program this evening, since it deals with a very sensitive subject: the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 which resulted in the massacre of more than 800,000 people.
Two days ago, the French online media Médiapart revealed that the researcher François Graner had exhumed a diplomatic telegram from the Quai d'Orsay to his representatives in the country, in 1994, to let the Rwandan interim government pass and therefore, in his breast, suspected Hutu genocidaires to neighboring Zaire.
Almost 27 years later, we are starting to see more clearly.
Why did France let the Rwandan genocidaires flee in July 1994?
This is the question of the day.
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To discuss it:
- François Grane
r, researcher, member of the Survie association, co-author with Raphaël Doridant of “The French State and the Tutsi Genocide” (Agone, 2020)
- Colonel Jacques Hogard
, the French officer who commanded the southern sector of Operation Turquoise in July 1994.
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