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French allowed Rwanda genocide perpetrators to flee

French allowed Rwanda genocide perpetrators to flee
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France turned blind eye to Rwanda genocide suspects

France’s intelligence chief signed an order to release top suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a previously classified diplomatic cable suggests, in apparently damning evidence of the country’s murky role in the massacres. Rwanda has long accused France of backing or at the very least turning a blind eye to Hutu forces behind most of the violence in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered, many with machetes, over 100 days. Rwanda has also alleged that France facilitated the escape of some of the perpetrators – something Paris denies. However, the diplomatic cable unearthed by a lawyer researching France’s conduct in the genocide suggests that Paris knew suspects had sought refuge in a “humanitarian safe zone” controlled by French soldiers but deliberately let them go.

France helped Rwanda genocide suspects escape

Authorities in Paris helped suspects in the 1994 Rwanda genocide to escape while under French military protection, according to a diplomatic cable, rekindling Kigali’s allegations that France secretly supported Hutu forces behind the killings. The document, written by France’s then-envoy to Rwanda and obtained on Sunday by Agence France-Presse from a lawyer researching France’s actions during the genocide, suggested that Paris knew suspects had sought refuge in a “humanitarian safe zone” controlled by French soldiers. The soldiers had arrived in June 1994 as part of the UN-mandated Operation Turquoise to stop the massacres that left at least 800,000 people dead, mainly among

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