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Compte rendu au colonel Rosier, 16 h 30

Card Number 27518

Number
27518
Author
Gillier, Marin
Date
27 juin 1994
Ymd
19940627
Title
Compte rendu au colonel Rosier, 16 h 30
Pages
174
Extracted from
L'État français et le génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda, Raphaël Doridant et François Graner, Agone/Survie, février 2020.
Size
1439246 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Type
Note
Language
FR
Abstract
On June 27, 1994, Marin Gillier arrived in Gishyita with about thirty of his men. From this position, he watched armed men, most of them in civilian clothes, set off from Gishyita towards Bisesero, 5 kilometers as the crow flies, to storm it. Despite the information received the day before from journalists reporting massacres of Tutsi in the area, he reports the events to his superior, Colonel Rosier, head of the COS of Turquoise, speaking of "fights" against elements RPF infiltrators. In his report, Gillier however also mentions that the population of Gishyita is carrying out "revenge raids" and that the Tutsi civilians who lived in Gishyita "fled to Bisesero from the start of the conflict".