Rwanda: New Details On France's Arms Supplier for Genocide Govt

A clandestine agent of the French government was paid US$3m by the genocide government to supply arms and more than 1,000 mercenaries to keep it in power as the slaughter of Tutsis was being implemented.

Captain Paul Barril was secretly sent by François de Grossouvre, advisor to ex-French President Francois Mitterrand, to Rwanda a few days before or after the genocide of Tutsis had started. On April 27, 1994, the Defense Minister at the time, Augustin Bizimana, wrote a letter to Paul Barril asking for two specific supplies; arms and mercenaries.

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