Rwanda-Paris prêt à arrêter les membres du gouvernement intérimaire rwandais [Avec une note d'Hubert Védrine]

15 juillet 1994

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Rwanda-Paris prêt à arrêter les membres du gouvernement intérimaire rwandais [Avec une note d'Hubert Védrine]

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On July 15, 1994, the interim Rwandan president Sindikubwabo arrived in Cyangugu, in the Turquoise zone, soon joined by most of the GIR ministers. A meeting takes place at the Matignon hotel to decide what to do. The announcement made by the Quai d'Orsay that these ministers responsible for the genocide would be interned prompted this annotation from the hand of Hubert Védrine, then Secretary General of the Élysée: "Lecture du President. This is not what was said at the Prime Minister".

While the massacres in Rwanda were recognized on June 28, 1994 by René Degni-Ségui, special rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, France, a signatory to the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of genocide, must arrest the presumed culprits. A spokesman for the Quai d'Orsay said: "If they come to us and we are informed, we will intern them". But on this document from the archives of the Élysée, Hubert Védrine notes about the members of the Rwandan interim Government: “Lecture du President. This is not what was said at the Prime Minister”. Far from arresting the members of the interim Government, the French soldiers will help them cross into Zaire. They will release at the end of Turquoise the few assassins they had arrested. So, in violation of the UN convention against genocide, the French military, carrying out the order of Paris, will smuggle all the criminals into Zaire, allowing them to reconstitute their forces there to take their revenge. This will cause a series of wars in Zaire-DRC.