A Belgian appeals court ruling on Friday that cleared their government of recalling its peacekeepers from Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi which left 2,000 people to face death, is seen by the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) as being politically motivated.
On April 11, 1994, Belgian soldiers abandoned thousands who had sought refuge at ETO in Kigali, then the main cantonment of the Belgian UN troops, to be murdered in cold blood by Interahamwe militia and government soldiers.
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