Title
Depuis 1990 la France a soutenu à bout de bras le régime hutu, responsable aujourd'hui de la plupart des exactions. Et elle se décide à intervenir au moment même où le FPR est en passe de prendre le pouvoir
Abstract
- Still very violent fighting this morning in Kigali in Rwanda.
- France is determined to intervene, even if for the moment it has not yet received a mandate from the United Nations. A first French contingent of at least 1,000 men must take up position while awaiting the green light at the border between Zaire and Rwanda.
- Technically, this limited operation will not be difficult to set up. Politically, it is something else. This weekend, Alain Juppé visiting Dakar did not have too much trouble getting the Senegalese to join the project. One or two other African allies of France could follow. But the Europeans, it is more complicated: Italy, for a moment foreseen, is backtracking.
- It must be said that France is not the best placed to mount a humanitarian expedition in Rwanda. From 1990 until the beginning of this year, she supported at arm's length the Hutu regime, responsible today for most of the abuses. And she decides to intervene at the very moment when the RPF is on the way to seize power by arms. The RPF leaders have already made it known that they would oppose the French intervention by all means.