jmdrake
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I am sick and tired of scum like Bill Clinton or agitators for "Invisible Children" or for intervention in Darfur using the Rwandan genocide as their political prop. The truth is that it was western intervention, from France this time, that allowed the genocide to take place and continue for as long as it did. Once the French were no longer able to effectively intervene, the Tutsi rebels put a quick end to the genocide. You see it's hard to waste your manpower killing a bunch of old men, women and children and effectively hold off a well armed, well trained fighting force who are now fully motivated by your murderous acts to kick your butt. Here is the evidence to prove what I am saying. Use it next time some neocon or neolib says "We have to intervene in this or that conflict because we don't want another Rwanda."
Americans suffer from ignorance about what really happened in the world. We need to get the word out that Rwanda was overall an non-intervention success story. The RPF rebels were able to route the government army and militias that were committing the genocide in a matter of months. If anything, intervention by the French slowed them down.
Please read and digest this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/world/french-establish-a-base-in-rwanda-to-block-rebels.html
France inserted itself more directly into Rwanda's civil war today, establishing a major base here six miles from the advancing Tutsi-led rebel army and manning it with Foreign Legionnaires and paratroopers supported by heavy artillery.
The purpose is to prevent the rebels' westward advance into the safe zone declared by the French intervention force.
"It is a line in the sand," a French Army captain said.
The French move came on the same day that the rebel forces, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, gained control of major Government installations in Kigali, the capital.
After nearly three months of almost daily bombardment, the capital was quiet today, United Nations officials there said. The rebels allowed the Hutu to leave and Tutsi emerged from hiding. Kigali is 80 miles north of the new French base.
The country's second-largest city, Butare, has also fallen to the rebel army, according to a Rwandan Army general traveling today on the road west of Butare. A football field two miles west of this base was crowded today with wounded Government soldiers who had been forced to flee from Butare.
The French move to set up the safe zone and stop the rebel army, which was approved by President Francois Mitterrand, represents a substantial change in its mission. Until now, the French have said they are neutral. But in protecting a region that contains Government forces but no rebel troops, France has effectively come to the rescue of the beleaguered Hutu-dominated Government.
It's clear as spit! After the world's attention was brought to bear on the worst genocide since Nazi Germany FRANCE INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE BUTCHERS! Oh the French claimed they "had to" in order to "protect their nationals". But the end result is that thousands more innocent Tutsis died because the rebel army that was coming to save them was temporarily thwarted by the French.
Oh....but there's more.
As the French troops took up their positions, Rwandan officials drove along the dirt roads, using loudspeakers to urge the people not to flee, because the French had come to protect them.
Shortly after the outbreak of the civil war, which began in October 1990 when the rebels invaded from bases in Uganda, the French sent paratroopers to stop the rebels, who were approaching Kigali. France continued to support the Hutu-dominated Government with arms and training, and as recently as six months ago French soldiers were here in open support of the Government. They withdrew in December and did not return until their present intervention, which began on June 23.
Last week a French official here said the rebels could not be allowed to achieve a military victory. Even though Government-backed troops are guilty of massacres, he said, the Tutsi will have to negotiate with them. Tutsi are a minority, he added, and can not expect to run the country, he said. (The Tutsi make up about 15 percent of Rwanda's population.)
By confronting the rebels with military muscle, the French may be hoping to bring them to the negotiating table.
So the French:
1) Armed and trained the Hutus admittedly.
2) Intervened to stop the Tutsi rebels in 1990. (Had the rebels won back then there would have been no genocide)
3) Intervened when the rebels were about to destroy the Hutu army in 1994 long after the genocide was well published.
4) Still wanted the rebels to "negotiate" with brutal genocidal murderers.
Folks, that's the face of foreign intervention. It is the creation and sustaining of genocide. French officials should have been brought up on charges of crimes against humanity because, but for their intervention, the genocide in Rwanda never would have happened, and but for their continued intervention it would not have continued.
Americans suffer from ignorance about what really happened in the world. We need to get the word out that Rwanda was overall an non-intervention success story. The RPF rebels were able to route the government army and militias that were committing the genocide in a matter of months. If anything, intervention by the French slowed them down.
Please read and digest this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/world/french-establish-a-base-in-rwanda-to-block-rebels.html
France inserted itself more directly into Rwanda's civil war today, establishing a major base here six miles from the advancing Tutsi-led rebel army and manning it with Foreign Legionnaires and paratroopers supported by heavy artillery.
The purpose is to prevent the rebels' westward advance into the safe zone declared by the French intervention force.
"It is a line in the sand," a French Army captain said.
The French move came on the same day that the rebel forces, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, gained control of major Government installations in Kigali, the capital.
After nearly three months of almost daily bombardment, the capital was quiet today, United Nations officials there said. The rebels allowed the Hutu to leave and Tutsi emerged from hiding. Kigali is 80 miles north of the new French base.
The country's second-largest city, Butare, has also fallen to the rebel army, according to a Rwandan Army general traveling today on the road west of Butare. A football field two miles west of this base was crowded today with wounded Government soldiers who had been forced to flee from Butare.
The French move to set up the safe zone and stop the rebel army, which was approved by President Francois Mitterrand, represents a substantial change in its mission. Until now, the French have said they are neutral. But in protecting a region that contains Government forces but no rebel troops, France has effectively come to the rescue of the beleaguered Hutu-dominated Government.
It's clear as spit! After the world's attention was brought to bear on the worst genocide since Nazi Germany FRANCE INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE BUTCHERS! Oh the French claimed they "had to" in order to "protect their nationals". But the end result is that thousands more innocent Tutsis died because the rebel army that was coming to save them was temporarily thwarted by the French.
Oh....but there's more.
As the French troops took up their positions, Rwandan officials drove along the dirt roads, using loudspeakers to urge the people not to flee, because the French had come to protect them.
Shortly after the outbreak of the civil war, which began in October 1990 when the rebels invaded from bases in Uganda, the French sent paratroopers to stop the rebels, who were approaching Kigali. France continued to support the Hutu-dominated Government with arms and training, and as recently as six months ago French soldiers were here in open support of the Government. They withdrew in December and did not return until their present intervention, which began on June 23.
Last week a French official here said the rebels could not be allowed to achieve a military victory. Even though Government-backed troops are guilty of massacres, he said, the Tutsi will have to negotiate with them. Tutsi are a minority, he added, and can not expect to run the country, he said. (The Tutsi make up about 15 percent of Rwanda's population.)
By confronting the rebels with military muscle, the French may be hoping to bring them to the negotiating table.
So the French:
1) Armed and trained the Hutus admittedly.
2) Intervened to stop the Tutsi rebels in 1990. (Had the rebels won back then there would have been no genocide)
3) Intervened when the rebels were about to destroy the Hutu army in 1994 long after the genocide was well published.
4) Still wanted the rebels to "negotiate" with brutal genocidal murderers.
Folks, that's the face of foreign intervention. It is the creation and sustaining of genocide. French officials should have been brought up on charges of crimes against humanity because, but for their intervention, the genocide in Rwanda never would have happened, and but for their continued intervention it would not have continued.
