cThe genocide of 1994 left no Rwandan untouched. Now they were being asked to
live together as one cohesive society. Onclusion
The genocide of 1994 left no Rwandan untouched. Now they were being asked to
live together as one cohesive society.
As a former Belgian colony, Rwanda is a place where French is spoken, and
before the genocide its Hutu dictatorship was heavily dependant on French
patronage. French military and political backing created a protective bubble for the
mobilization of the Hutu Power extremists who organized and presided over the
genocide of 1994. France provided arms and diplomatic cover to the exterminators.
France knew what its clients were about. So why did France pursue such an insane
policy? To protect its sphere of influence -- and out of a policy that was radically
indifferent to human welfare. During the genocide, as Hutu Power was supervising
the massacre of an average of at least eight thousand Tutsis a day, France's socialist
president, Francois Mitterand, remarked, "In such countries, genocide is not so
Difinition of genocide:::::::::::::::::::
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately infliciting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.::::::::::::::::::::::
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