HOTEL RWANDA

A bit of diversion from Iraq, or American policy. Those comments will come when the President makes up his mind and discusses it with the rest of us.

Today's rant is about Rwanda. And our friends, the French Government.

It seems that there's another major issue not discussed at all in the US "Press." Here's a link to the London Times articles on French involvement and culpability for the genocide in Rwanda, for which former President Clinton has already apologised as we did nothing about it. Read the whole thing, and follow the links on the right side of the page to see this as it developed, and was reported in Europe.

Well, it seems that over several months....silence from our opinion minders in the US media....trials have been going on in Rwanda which have revealed that the Mitterand government of France assisted in the genocide of Hutus against Tutsis; a horrible event in which an estimated million people were murdered over a couple of months....many hacked to death by machete wielding mobs of "soldiers."

In April 1994 the French Embassy became the setting for the formation of the extremist Hutu Government that was to organise and carry out the meticulously planned genocide of the Tutsis. Witnesses spoke of these ministers, many now facing life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, sitting in plush embassy chairs comparing notes on where the killing was going best. Their host, the French Ambassador, later helped to evacuate those extremists to Paris, away from the apocalypse they had created. The ambassador then made a bonfire of two rooms piled high with documents linking his Government with that of the Hutu dictatorship of Juvénal Habyarimana.

If you saw the movie, you saw the effect and the impotence of the U.N. "peacekeepers." What you didn't see is detailed in the Times Online article. What you haven't heard is that the current Rwandan government has expelled all French interests in the country and broken diplomatic relations with France over the clearly revealed French responsibility.

We'll see where this goes....perhaps it's all a hoax....perhaps there's no culpability...but I'd not put money on it. The French have acted brutally in Africa before, and sometimes have been caught doing it. I've previously sent out video of French troops killing unarmed civilians in their former colony Ivory Coast. We've seen this and know it is true....so I'm inclined to believe the Rwandans.

Remember this the next time you feel inclined to accept blame, for anything, assigned by France or the "United Nations"....those eminent humanitarians and good-fellow true believers.

For what it's worth, here's a comment from a British-Libertarian kind of blog that adds a twist to the story, which they also picked up.

I cannot escape the suspicion that if somehow, however tangentially, the USA was involved then articles about Rwanda would be a far more common thing in the media. That said, I have no doubt that someone, somewhere has concocted a conspiracy theory that it was the CIA, rather than France, who was backing the Bad Guys in 1994, supplying the Interahamwe with machetes from a secret Halliburton machete factory in somewhere in Texas.

That's cool. Irony Lives On. Somebody "gets it."