Selon les militaires français, ce sont au total 1 200 000 Rwandais qui sont poussés sur les routes par crainte de nouveaux massacres

Masure, Bruno

Lemasson, Éric

Duquesne, Benoît

9 juillet 1994

19940709

20:00:00

CEST

Journal de 20 heures

Selon les militaires français, ce sont au total 1 200 000 Rwandais qui sont poussés sur les routes par crainte de nouveaux massacres

Des officiers parmi les plus influents de l'armée gouvernementale viennent de publier une déclaration solennelle appelant à la réconciliation nationale.

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- The war in Rwanda: Patriotic Front fighters remain at the edge of the humanitarian zone created by the French in the southwest of the country. The major problem remains, more than ever, the dramatic influx of refugees into this area.
- They are tens of thousands, silent and afraid. They are fleeing. Hutu refugees fleeing the advance of RPF troops, heading west toward the Zaire border, where they hope to find a measure of safety.
- These images were filmed yesterday [July 8]. We are in Rushashi, 40 kilometers west of Kigali, in the last area still controlled by Hutu government forces. The only region of Rwanda where the RPF can still advance. The French have no intention of controlling it for the time being; their security zone is further south.
- There are still no humanitarian organizations coming to the aid of this population, which is accumulating too quickly for anyone to have time to organize relief.
- These refugees will soon pile up along the Zairian border. And according to the French military, a total of 1,200,000 Rwandans are thus driven onto the roads by fear of new massacres.
- On the political front, the UN envoy on the ground met with representatives of the Interim Government to negotiate a ceasefire.
- There may not be a need for a truce in Rwanda due to a lack of fighters. The soldiers still loyal to the Interim Government seem to be abandoning it. Some of the most influential officers in the government army have just issued a solemn declaration calling for national reconciliation.
- This man is a brigadier general. He was primarily at the side of the assassinated President Habyarimana for years. First at the Ministry of Defense, then at the presidency.
- Today, he commands the Kigali Military Academy, located near Gikongoro. And for the first time, he is speaking and signing a text with other senior officers. A sort of appeal that discusses a halt to the fighting, negotiations with the RPF, and condemnation of the genocide, despite the increasingly provisional government in Gisenyi.
- Brigadier General Léonidas Rusatira: "From within, we denounce and officially condemn the genocide and all the other crimes that have been committed in this country. There have been enough deaths, enough destruction, enough damage, both human and material. The war must end!".
- But what weight does this general and his army of teenagers have in an area where his troops are no longer fighting? An area whose borders are still being explored by the French to assess the RPF's advance.
- Civilians continue to flock by the hundreds of thousands to the French zone, waiting for humanitarian aid that is slow to arrive.

The 20 o'clock news of France 2 of July 9, 1994 is visible in its entirety here: https: https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cab05083573/f2-le-journal-20h-emission-du-9-juillet-1994

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