Rwanda: Story of a Genocide Foretold
Directed by Michael Sztanke (2019)
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This documentary is about recent declassified evidence that reveals French complicity in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
Although Rwanda is a former Belgian colony, France provided military “support” from the early nineties an an effort to “de-anglicize” central Africa. Viewing military presence in Rwanda as an entry point to Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with its wealth of diamonds, gold, and rare earth minerals, they offered weapons and “military advisors.” Many of the latter assumed operational command over Rwandan troops.
Meanwhile, owing to systematic persecution by the Hutu-led government, many minority Tutsis fled to Uganda where they formed the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) led by current president Paul Kagame. The role of French forces was to assist the Hutu government in repelling the RPF.
In 1991, French general Jean Varret warned his superiors that machine guns and…
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