The Nation (Nairobi)
30 January 2008
France has offered an olive branch by sending an emissary, the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, to her former colony Rwanda. Mr Kouchner, upon his arrival in Kigali admitted that France must have failed somewhere politically in Rwanda.
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This is in reply to the comment made about the shooting of the president...This i believe is a tactic by many hutu extremists and their sympathisers to derail the worlds attention on what happened in Rwanda. By trying to implicate the current Government, as mentioned in the Article the Hutu extremist who have setup base in France use that a way to slow the truth.
The former presidents death was by his own men, who feared his signing of the Arusha peace accords and thought he had pressured into sharing power with the RPF..or should i say INYENZI..since thats what y'all called us. How does one mans death justify the KILLING OF MILLIONS...oh and just incase you didnt know the killings of TUTSI in the Late 50's Mid 70's and early 90's...your socalled president was in power from the 70's till his death... WAS THAT KAGAME'S FAULT????
How is it that one man's death who first and foremost was a dictator...did not allow Rwandan refugees to return home...if he had accepted, the War in the 90's wouldnt have happened...and the French affraid of the spread of Anglophonies did their best to slow down the take over.... the Zone Trouquois was a way of letting the hutu government escape into Congo ...and the results are seen as the DRC has been trough so much pain...
The new French government has noticed that going head to head with Rwanda is fruitless...hence why they sent their delegate to Rwanda...we did not go begging...and if you havent noticed we can do without the FRENCH...Rwanda has alot of friends who see what GOOD LEADERSHIP does in a matter of 13 years... i would encourage you to visit Rwanda and see it for yourself...
People like you that want to put the RPF in the same category as the Interahmwe and the ExFar are blinded and want to maintain the old status quo...or and before you start blaming H.E President Paul Kagame for having shot down the plane...the area where the plane was shot down was controlled by the ExFar...may be you should be questioning General Bizimungu AND THE FDLR IN GOMA....
And how do you explain the fast and effective means that were used to kill people during the genocide...the lists of names...it makes it hard to believe the RPF had something to do with it...because right after the death of the president...road blocks were set up...PEOPLES NAMES AND WERE ABOUTS WERE BEING READ ON THE RADIO...it seems that this was planned way ahead of time...they knew that they TUTSI had to die but did know how to get the MASSES in on their escapades...so what better way to get the killings started by blaming the TUTSI of killing of Habyarimana.
Go figure!
"her former colony Rwanda" ? Please note that Rwanda has never been a French colony...
Of course you may say that the relationship between France and Rwanda/Burundi after the 1970s was "neo-colonialist", but what I mean is that these countries, before gaining their independance in 1961, had been colonies of Germany and Belgium, not France.
Yes rwandan was a colony of germany and belgium but putting things right between the two countries is a good step for situation to be corrected and peace to be allowed without any biased mind.Rwandans has to be careful and be diplomatic in situations like this.Rwandans has to stand on thier feet, knowing this we Africans are the one that can solve some of our problems. kudos to president PAUL KAGAME MAY GOD CONTINUE TO ORDER HIS STEPS he is a man who understand his peoples desire. LONG LIFE RWANDA LONG LIFE NIGERIA
Bullshit!! Rwanda has never been the colony of France!!
Very missleading!!
Thanks Musoke for your report on the visit of French Foreign Ministers visit to the Great Lakes Region: What is missing in your report is the part played by Rwanda Patriotic Front(RPF), Paulo Kagame and M7 in Uganda visa avis the shooting down of Habyalimana's plane in Kigali. The French Government is not stupid to incliminate Kagame with no facts on the ground. Believe it or not one day these facts are going to be out in the open! By severing diplomatic ties with France won't help Paulo Kagame and M7 in Uganda. Switching ties from Paris to London will not help thousands of Tutsis and Hutus that were murdered . The culprits of this Genocide will go to HAGUE one day.