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On the front page of the weeklies, Rwanda which this weekend commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the genocide. A country which is leading a reconciliation that is still imperfect and which can only happen through justice.
Le Nouvel Obs
draws a portrait of those we call "the Klarsfelds of Rwanda": Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have been tracking down the genocidaires for years. Many genocidaires took refuge in France in 1994, there are still around a hundred of them. This is particularly the case of Eugène Rwamucyo, exiled in France, resident in Belgium. He is suspected of having actively participated in the genocide. Thanks to the work of the Gauthier couple, the man will be judged in France, under universal jurisdiction, after having been sentenced in absentia to life in Rwanda in 2007.
France, through its President Emmanuel Macron, has once again recognized its responsibility. At the same time, it relaunches the debate on the sometimes complicit silence of the international community.
The lessons of the Rwandan genocide have not been learned, according to the British weekly
The Economist
. Unveiled before the eyes of an entire horrified world at the time, it was thought rather quickly that the images of the massacres would mark the common conscience, to such an extent that mass killings could not happen again without the intervention of foreign forces. But
The Economist
recalls that in Ethiopia, Burma, Sudan, Syria, Yemen or today in Gaza, world powers almost never do anything to protect millions of people from bombs and famine.
The responsibility to protect civilians, a principle unanimously adopted at the United Nations in 2005, imploded after the intervention in Libya, described by
The Economist
as the original sin. Pandora's box is open. In 2013, when Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons on civilians, the then American president Barack Obama created a precedent: he mentioned a "red line", but without intervening when it was exceeded...
Another testimony in the weekly press: that of around ten women who are breaking the silence on sexual violence in the army. They decree the end of silence within the “great mute”. This is a new stage in the #MeToo movement, assures
Paris Match
.
Traumatized, but dignified, like Ninon, 23 years old, crushed by the feeling of injustice. Sexually assaulted by her superior a few years ago, she had the courage to speak out, she and seven other women, who accused her in particular of rape. But in response, the army imposes a new unit commander and above all silence regarding the “incident”. Lonely, Ninon goes on sick leave... until being written off in 2023 for unregularized absences. At the same time, his attacker received a promotion! Widespread impunity reports
Match
: of the 226 cases of sexual violence or sexist outrage reported in the Army in 2023, barely half were the subject of disciplinary sanctions.
Finally, discover the story of the training of Ukrainian athletes, who continue their preparation for the Olympic Games, despite the war. These are champions who dream of the Games, read in
L'Express
this week. The weekly immerses us in kyiv, in the daily training, threatened by a missile or a drone. Several times a day, the diving team interrupts their training to take refuge under the pool, in the shelters. Recovery, essential for athletes, is also undermined by stress and waking up suddenly to the echo of the bombings. With the airspace closed, it takes them several days to travel to preparatory competitions abroad. But there is no question of giving up. For Oleksiy, winning an Olympic medal is a dream: "A lot of people would hear good things about Ukraine," he confides, he who wants to prove that we can get on the first step of the podium, even when his country is at war.
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