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Did Israel arm Rwanda during the 1994 genocide?
Middle East Eye ^ | Friday 16 January 2015 | Michal Zak

Posted on 01/25/2015 8:06:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv

"In our petition we rely, among other sources, on an Amnesty International report that was published in 1995...

"There was tension in Rwanda as early as January of 1994. Several of the world's most powerful states imposed international arms control regulations and on May 17 1994 there was a UN embargo. Israel breached the embargo, as did Russia, Belgium, South Africa, France, Spain and others. Many of the planes that transported the shipments were British. The last license to export arms was issued by the Israeli Ministry of Defense in October 1993, about half a year before the massacres began. [and over six months before the embargo began]

"But some of the shipments were sent between May and July (during the massacres). According to the documents of the Rwandan Ministry of Defence, seven shipments of light ammunition arrived from Israel via Albania between April and July of 1994 for use of the militias that committed the massacres.

"I must add that the Israelis were also the first to send a military hospital to Rwanda in July of 1994. The medical staff did a remarkable job. But while the government was responsible for this great act of humanitarian aid, it was also responsible for supplying arms to the government Hutu forces.

"...Israel sold weapons to Serbia during the civil war (1991-1995), after the UN embargo was declared in 1991. In 1992, while Milosevic was being described by many as the new Hitler of Europe, Israel opened an embassy in Serbia. Acts committed by the Serbs during the war were later defined as genocide and ethnic cleansing. When the prime minister of Serbia visited Israel in 2014, both the Serbian and the Israeli leaders failed to mention this dark chapter in their relations, as if it had never happened. We are petitioning the state in this case as well. We want the dates, details, documents and names of people who were involved. We know that very high officials were involved...

"Since 2012 Israel sold billions of dollars worth of arms to Azerbaijan, even though there is an EU and a de facto US embargo on Azerbaijan. There are close relations between the two countries. Azerbaijan supplies 40 percent of Israel's oil and is eager to buy its military technologies. Israel justifies arming Azerbaijan because it borders Iran..."


TOPICS: Israel; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agitprop; albania; armenia; azerbaijan; belgium; burundi; france; hillaryclinton; hutu; iran; israel; lebanon; russia; rwanda; serbia; southafrica; spain; tanzania; turkey; tutsi; uganda; unitedkingdom
Investigator finds evidence Israel was supplying weapons to Rwanda via Albania after UN embargo was imposed

Did Israel arm Rwanda during the 1994 genocide?

1 posted on 01/25/2015 8:06:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
In our petition we rely, among other sources, on an Amnesty International report that was published in 1995 …
So that’s where my toilet paper disappeared to.
2 posted on 01/25/2015 8:08:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SunkenCiv

Amnesty International? ROTFL! That’s a bunch of clowns.


3 posted on 01/25/2015 8:11:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

This is really all about Bill Clinton’s Pontius Pilate routine during the massacre, because his wife in name only is running for POTUS.

[snip] Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day... Amid the onslaught, the small U.N. peacekeeping force was overwhelmed as terrified Tutsi families and moderate politicians sought protection. Among the peacekeepers were ten soldiers from Belgium who were captured by the Hutus, tortured and murdered. As a result, the United States, France, Belgium, and Italy all began evacuating their own personnel from Rwanda. However, no effort was made to evacuate Tutsi civilians or Hutu moderates. Instead, they were left behind entirely at the mercy of the avenging Hutu. Back at U.N headquarters in New York, the killings were initially categorized as a breakdown in the cease-fire between the Tutsi and Hutu. Throughout the massacre, both the U.N. and the U.S. carefully refrained from labeling the killings as genocide, which would have necessitated some kind of emergency intervention. [/snip]

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/rwanda.htm

If there had been YouTube back then, Hitlery would have assigned blame to some obscure video.


4 posted on 01/25/2015 8:14:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Olog-hai; FlingWingFlyer

/bingo


5 posted on 01/25/2015 8:16:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So Israel sent them machetes and clubs?


6 posted on 01/25/2015 8:16:45 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: SunkenCiv

Good way to slice off your trigger finger.


7 posted on 01/25/2015 8:17:04 AM PST by allendale
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To: SunkenCiv

What stories are the obots planting now? Are they trying to justify what they think will be a second holocaust? For the affirmative action Hitler, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, this demonization of Israel would not be a stretch.


8 posted on 01/25/2015 8:18:38 AM PST by Stepan12 (Our present appeasement of Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In Rwanda during the 1990s, some 800,000 unarmed Tutsis were slaughtered by the new Hutu government. It is interesting to note that most of the murders were committed with machetes. More interesting than that, however, is the fact that communist China supplied the Hutus with 581,000 machetes in 1993 BUT Even more interesting than that is that the former Secretary General of the United Nations, one Boutros Boutros-Ghali, facilitated the arms deals with the Hutus, the deal that facilitated the genocide. In 1990, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Boutros-Ghali, facilitated an arms deal which was to result in $26 million worth of mortar bombs, rocket launchers, grenades and ammunition being flown from Cairo to Rwanda and then used to perpetrate a genocide a few years later. China. The UN. Gun control. Genocide.

9 posted on 01/25/2015 8:30:27 AM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: RC one

Ah, but did you information come from amnesty international? If not than how can anyone possibly take it seriously, I mean what the hell, you can’t just post actual facts!


10 posted on 01/25/2015 9:17:17 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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OK, if Amnesty says so, it was about Zionist machetes.

11 posted on 01/25/2015 11:59:59 AM PST by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: SunkenCiv

“In our petition we rely, among other sources, on an Amnesty International report that was published in 1995...”

No credibility IMO. I find it a waste of time to read much more than the excerpt.


12 posted on 01/25/2015 12:09:47 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: SunkenCiv
"Beyond the Gates" was another good movie chronicling the 1994 Rwanda genocide.......

Beyond the Gates

13 posted on 01/25/2015 1:58:20 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Man of "non-color" and proud of it)
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