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"Col. Sartre organized a public meeting on July 13, 1994 at Rubengera where he strongly encouraged the population to flee to Zaire by promising France's assistance for a speedy armed return to Rwanda", the report notes.
"French soldiers accompanied the ex-FAR and Interahamwe into Zaire where they immediately assisted them in the form of military training, arms and ammunition supplies to prepare an armed return."
During Zone Turquoise, the report concludes, France's involvement in the genocide became most visible. As France had a mandate from the UN to create a humanitarian safe zone, it bears responsibility for the massacres carried out in the area under their control, it argues.
"By deciding to maintain the politicians and administrators in place and collaborate with those who had perpetrated the genocide in the previous two and half months, by requesting them or allowing them to continue killing Tutsi, the French soldiers and their commanders took full control of the genocide project."
French politicians accused
- Francois Mitterrand: President of the Republic of France
- Alain Juppe: Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Leotard: Minister of Defense
- Marcel Debarge: Minister of Cooperation
- Hubert Vedrine: Secretary General in the President's Office
- Edouard Balladur: Prime Minister
- Delaye: Presidential Advisor
- Jean-Christophe Mitterrand: Presidential Advisor
- Paul Dijoud: Head of Africa and Madagascar Unit in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Dominique De Villepin: Assistant Head of Africa and Madagascar Unit
- Georges Martres: French Ambassador to Rwanda
- Jean-Michel Marlaud: French Ambassador to Rwanda
- Jean-Bernard Merimee: French Ambassador to the UN
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