Posted on 11/24/2006 8:53:34 AM PST by TexKat
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with France and given the French ambassador 24 hours to leave the central African country, Kigali's foreign affairs minister Charles Murigande said on Friday.
"We in the cabinet have decided to cut our diplomatic relations with France. We have ordered the French ambassador to leave our country within 24 hours and given other French diplomats 72 hours to leave the country," he told Reuters.
Murigande also said Rwanda would close the French cultural center in the capital Kigali.
The move came as Rwanda recalled its envoy from Paris after a French judge called for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the 1994 killing of a former leader, sparking the country's genocide of 800,000 people.
French foreign ministry officials had no immediate reaction to Rwanda's decision to break off ties with its former ally.
"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance."
--Thomas Jefferson
ARMS TRADE RESOURCE CENTER
REPORTS - Weapons at War - January 2000
Deadly Legacy:
U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War ?by William D. Hartung and Bridget Moix of the Arms Trade Resource Center
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm
The Geopolitics behind the Rwandan Genocide: Paul Kagame accused of War Crimes
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, November 23, 2006
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061123&articleId=3958
How US Foreign Policy over decades was influenced by the Diamond Cartel
Maurice Tempelsman: The Convergence of Policy and Profit in Private
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Company/diamonds1.htm
http://edge.channel4.com/news/2005/other/15_congo.wmv
BE THANKFUL 'IT SUCKS TO BE YOU' HASN'T YET HAPPENED TO YOU.
So what's your point?.....that the United States is the broker for all that is bad in the world?
State your case.
Six months after Allied Forces liberated German concentration camps, a military tribunal formed at Nuremberg to prosecute Nazi war criminals. Some of the most dangerous were brought to justice--but not all. Over 4,000 former Nazis went to work for the US government, without the public's knowledge, to help fight the Soviet Union. Reinhard Gehlen, an intelligence officer for Hitler's General Staff, was tapped to head the US intelligence program in West Germany to spy on the Russians. At the same time, former Nazi scientists and engineers were welcomed onto American soil. In 1998, a bill was finally signed into law that mandated declassification of documents concerning recruitment of former Nazis. We dig into the records to see if the ends justified the means and ask how far the US should go to partner with a former enemy to fight another.
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=194026
Operation Paperclip
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22operation+paperclip%22+conspiracy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The world would be a $hithole without the United States; indeed, most of it is already.
Funny how you have no condemnation for Stalin, gulags, millions murdered.
I will, once I hear your justification FOR our covert wars on the Third World.
Tracking Covert Actions into the Future
http://mediafilter.org/caq/CovOps.html
Do tell.
You're putting words in my mouth…I never defended Stalin…you're intentionally distorting the argument…get back to justifying U.S. genocide on the Third World.
I want to hear your arguments FOR our covert wars on the poor.
I'll tell you what lady, dude, whatever you are, I feel like I am chatting with Cindy Sheehan.
On point…you've answered all my questions…don't mind me…I don't know anything…thank God we have intellectuals like you to save us from all those horrible poor people!
You haven't condemned him yet either.....
I'll do what I always do; I despise Nazis, communists, and any other would be dictator.
You red-tinged rants are becoming tiresome.
Yeah, thank God, especially since I am far from rich.
You red-tinged rants are becoming tiresome.
Red tinged? I quote Thomas Jefferson…government schools?
Try reading those quotes again, and see if you can see where the screw up is; I'll help you in a minute or two if you haven't figured it out by then.
"Kofi Annan, Mr. Kofi, please pick up the courtsey phone"
"Your useless ass, and that of your useless organization, are again needed to talk at the big podium"!
Oh pray tell…but please…tell me…what threats are our covert wars protecting us from?
I can take criticism…it comes with the territory…but you have yet to show anything other than smarmy digs…what give us IMPUNITY regarding Human Rights?
..I'm not using the word impunity, but unlike the rest of the world, we elect people, not slaughter our way to prominence like the folks I am sure you love so much.
'in the name of the people I'm sure'....the "common good"......
Stay in school…It's a jungle out there.
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