Reuters Photo: A Rwandan anti-France protester demonstrates in the capital Kigali, November 23, 2006. (Arthur Asiimwe/Reuters)
Reuters Photo: A Rwandan anti-France protester demonstrates in the capital Kigali, November 23, 2006. (Arthur Asiimwe/Reuters)
Rwanda gives French envoy 24 hrs to leave, cuts ties ping.
IIRC, during the genocidal chaos, there was some story (urban myth?)
about one of the Rwandan thugs talking to a supportive Frenchman about
what was actually going on in Rwanda (e.g., there was a genocide occurring).
The Frenchman's advice to the killer?
"Just don't kill them on-camera."
IIRC, during the genocidal chaos, there was some story (urban myth?)
about one of the Rwandan thugs talking to a supportive Frenchman about
what was actually going on in Rwanda (e.g., there was a genocide occurring).
The Frenchman's advice to the killer?
"Just don't kill them on-camera."
US should do the same... hehe
France surrenders again!
"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"!
Some facts here:
1. The day after that former Hutu leader was killed in 1994, the genocide began. The Hutus seemed to be looking for an excuse to begin the genocide. Most observers think radical Hutus killed that leader, not Kagame. If Kagame's Tutsi people had done it, how were the Hutus able to begin the genocide so quickly?
2. France supported the Hutus throughout the genocide while the Hutus killed the Tutsis. After it was over, one of the Rwandan officials asked a French official why they did so. The French position was that the Tutsis were doing guerilla operations from Uganda, which was an English-speaking country. The French didn't want an English-speaking country to exert influence over a French-speaking country. The Rwandan offical replied that in three months, one million French speakers had been killed.
France's behavior in the Rwandan genocide was so completely immoral that they have no right to lecture the U.S. on anything for another generation. Rwanda did the right thing by kicking the French out.