Rwanda: France Exhibiting Post-Colonial Melancholy

14 December 2006
opinion

Kigali — In an article appearing in the Khaleej Times late 2005, America's leading foreign policy critic and celebrated left-wing intellectual Noam Chomsky demystified President Bush's rhetoric on the 'very necessary and urgent war on Iraq' by interpreting Americas preventive war and aggressive foreign policy as bluntly being 'Imperialism through new and most effective mechanisms - disinformation and propaganda.'

Similarly, Judge Bruguire's dumbfounding allegations that President Kagame and other high-ranking officials in the Rwandan Government should be held responsible for the shooting of the Falcon Jet Airplane - with Presidents Habyarimana of Rwanda, Ntaryamira of Burundi and some French crew members, on the night of April 6, 1994, were clear signs of a feeble imperial power using every means possible to destabilise and discredit the humble achievements gained by a former Francophone State - Rwanda.

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