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The French Tell Lies in Broad Day Light

The French Tell Lies in Broad Day Light By Stephen Buckingham, The New Times (Kigali) 27/11/06 Nov 29, 2006, 09:08 Our old friend, the very old and very deluded French judge, who seems to have made it his life's work to 'Get Kagame' - like a Stallone Hollywood movie - has voiced his fantasy allegations again - strangely enough just after the conclusion of a Rwandan investigation into the participation of French troops in the Genocide. This is what I know, from corroborated findings, well documented and undisputed. 1: As Habyarimana's executive Falcon 50 jet - a present from President Francois Mitterrand, of France - approached Kanombe at just before 8:20 p.m.. on 6th April 1994; all the lights at the airport went out. 2: At 8:23 two missiles were launched at the approaching plane and the second blew the plane apart. And the airport lights came on again. 3: The missiles were fired from Masaka Hill, an area patrolled by the Presidential Guard, not the PPF. 4: White men were seen jumping into a jeep and leaving the area at great speed immediately after the missile fire. Let me comment on these points:

France has no jurisdiction to try our people - Kagame

Culled from The New Times - Rwanda's Leading Newspaper Wednesday, 29 November

2006 President Paul Kagame recently held an interview with Reuters News Agency on the latest stand off between France and Rwanda. This is a New Times transcript of the interview:

There is a new twist in relations between France and Rwanda. You have decided to cut off diplomatic relations with France after the recent international arrest warrants issued by a French Judge. What in your view, do you think is the agenda of the French?

Well I can’t understand it. But let me say that it should not only be heard that it’s only the government of Rwanda that should know that France was responsible for the genocide Rwanda. This was done in broad day light. There are facts. There is evidence. The whole world should know about it. Sometimes it sounds as if it’s only Rwanda that is accusing France. No! Even other people should be accusing France of that because they saw it, they know it, there are facts to that. Later on some people were bold enough to come up and apologise and say we didn’t do much to save the situation.

A figment of the imagination

By STEPHEN BUCKINGHAM Sunday, 12 November 2006 A man was arrested in Finland last week for denying the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War and advocating violence against the Jewish race. At the same time four Rwandans are pressing a case in the French courts against some French soldiers, accused of actual participation in the 1994 Genocide . Excuse me, perhaps I am mistaken. There appears to be mounting evidence that the holocaust of the Jews and the Genocide in Rwanda did not actually happen. It’s all a political rigmarole, made up by those who have other motives, either of self preservation or searching for power. Perhaps we should just confine the Holocaust and the Genocide to the myths of history – like the Armenian Genocide, and only acknowledge their reality when there is nobody left alive to remember the truth.

The Mystery of the Mystère Falcon

Ocnus.Net By Linda Melvern, Author of Conspiracy to Murder 26/11/06 Nov 27, 2006, 10:57 We may never know who was responsible for shooting down the Mystère Falcon jet under cover of darkness in the skies over Kigali at 8. 25 pm on 6 April 1994. Two African presidents, Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira were assassinated that night and almost immediately afterwards, as the plane lay smouldering in the presidential garden, there was a promise from the UN that an international enquiry would be held.. There was an imperative to find those responsible.

French Ambassador to Rwanda Expelled

The New Times (Kigali) NEWS November 25, 2006 Posted to the web November 25, 2006By Robert Mukombozi The French Ambassador to Rwanda, Dominique Decherf has been expelled following the deepening dispute between the two countries. The extraordinary Cabinet Meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame at Village Urugwiro yesterday, resolved that Ambassador Decherf leaves Rwanda within 24 hours, with the embassy closing as soon as the deadline expires. The reactions come in the wake of arrest warrants issued by French Magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguierre, in which he claims that officers of the Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) were involved in the shooting down of a plane carrying Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Ribadu accuses French banks of keeping Nigeria's loot

From Tunde Oyedoyin, London ORIGINAL SOURCE A MAJOR western power, France and some of her firms have been accused of aiding corruption in Nigeria. Among others, France is alleged of harbouring stolen loot which corrupt Nigerian leaders and their accomplices siphoned from the country. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who levelled the allegations, did not spare other western nations which he also accused of frustrating the on-going war against graft in Nigeria for not being co-operative in the nation's attempt to recover her stolen fund. The EFCC chief also disclosed that the country in the last couple of months had returned at least $750 million to foreign victims of Nigerian fraudsters, a.k.a. 419ers. "I've personally taken some money back to Singapore, some to the United States (U.S.) and other countries," Ribadu told his audience.

France’s Dirty War in Cameroon (II): The Assassination of Félix-Roland Moumié

By Dibussi Tande

So who exactly ordered the hit on Moumie and how high up in the French government did the crime and cover-up go? For years, French authorities strongly refuted any French government involvement in the Moumie assassination.

 
Jacques Foccart, "Mr. Francafrique", with President De Gaulle

Initially they even denied that Bechtel was a member of the French intelligence service, even though all the evidence pointed to the contrary.It wasn’t until after Bechtel’s death that tongues began to loosen. And it became apparent that the plot against Moumie directly involved the Matignon and even the Palais de l'Élysée.

Why Are The French Obsessed With Gbagbo?

Culled from Ocnus.net
     By Dr. Gary K. Busch and Jean Nanga 25/10/06
     Oct 26, 2006, 15:20

         

The Report of the International Commission of Enquiry on the allegations of violations of human rights in Ivory Coast between 19 September and 15 October 2004, in spite of its origins in the UN and the Linas-Marcoussis accords, confirms, although it is carefully worded, what is at stake economically in the Ivorian crisis. We read for example:

"The Commission has received testimony concerning events that could justify a certain optimism about the economic future of Ivory Coast. This concerned in particular the discovery of oilfields whose reserves are close to those of Kuwait and that thus Ivory Coast could become the second biggest African oil producer, after Nigeria. On top of that it would appear, still according to this testimony, that the reserves are of the much sought after ‘green’ oil. Apart from oil, it seems, according to this testimony, that gas deposits have been discovered between San Pedro and Sassandra: the reserves are enough for a hundred years of exploitation. It seems that other resources also exist, such as gold and diamonds, not to mention the rare metals that are now used for building satellites.” These are sources of neo-colonial capitalist barbarism.