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Pour les extrémistes hutu compromis dans les massacres et qui sont restés pris au piège dans la ville de Butare, des exécutions sommaires remplacent arrestations et jugements
Card Number 35292
Number
35292
Author
Masure, Bruno
Author
Monier, Éric
Author
Stelletta, Pascal
Date
10 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940710
Time
20:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 20 heures
Title
Pour les extrémistes hutu compromis dans les massacres et qui sont restés pris au piège dans la ville de Butare, des exécutions sommaires remplacent arrestations et jugements
Subtitle
Beaucoup de Rwandais continuent à se réfugier dans la zone contrôlée par les militaires français, fuyant l'avancée des troupes du Front patriotique.
Size
23761 bytes
Pages nb.
3
Source
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
en
Abstract
- At the G7, France received moral support for the humanitarian action of its soldiers in Rwanda. The final communiqué praised "France's meritorious action." This phrase was not mentioned in the initial draft.
- Tomorrow [July 11], Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppé will appear before the United Nations Security Council in New York to call for the earliest possible deployment of peacekeepers.
- On the ground, the situation of hundreds of thousands of displaced people is increasingly precarious. Many Rwandans continue to take refuge in the area controlled by the French military, fleeing the advance of Patriotic Front troops. A report from the city of Butare, Rwanda's second largest city, which is now controlled by the RPF.
- Just a few weeks ago, Rwanda was the most densely populated African country. And Butare was the country's second largest city. Here's what remains today.
- Since the capture of this town last Sunday [July 3], this is the first time the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the RPF, has allowed the press to enter. A visit under heavy escort, officially for security reasons, the government officials are only about twenty kilometers away.
- Moreover, like the captain who commands the town, and despite a displayed relaxed attitude, the watchword is to avoid any triumphalism. Théoneste Rurangwa, Commander of the Butare town: "I can't comment on that. They may come back, they may want to fight again. And if they decide to do so, we will push them back".
- The capture of the town was achieved without any major fighting in reality. The government left a lot behind when they fled and only had time to make rudimentary poisoned chalices.
- Butare seems to have been the plaything of looters rather than an army on the march. Looting, then, but also settling of scores. Summary executions here replace arrests and trials for the Hutu extremists involved in the massacres and who remained trapped in the city.
- Because not all the militiamen could have escaped. This is, at least, the official reason why the RPF is emptying the neighborhoods and gathering all its inhabitants, those who remain, into camps. In this stadium, for example, 2,000 or 3,000 people who, under the gaze of their liberators, admit to understanding this inconvenience.
- "The situation is calm but not normalized", the military would say. The inhabitants of Butare don't know how long they will spend here. But in Butare at least the guns have fallen silent.
- Tomorrow [July 11], Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppé will appear before the United Nations Security Council in New York to call for the earliest possible deployment of peacekeepers.
- On the ground, the situation of hundreds of thousands of displaced people is increasingly precarious. Many Rwandans continue to take refuge in the area controlled by the French military, fleeing the advance of Patriotic Front troops. A report from the city of Butare, Rwanda's second largest city, which is now controlled by the RPF.
- Just a few weeks ago, Rwanda was the most densely populated African country. And Butare was the country's second largest city. Here's what remains today.
- Since the capture of this town last Sunday [July 3], this is the first time the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the RPF, has allowed the press to enter. A visit under heavy escort, officially for security reasons, the government officials are only about twenty kilometers away.
- Moreover, like the captain who commands the town, and despite a displayed relaxed attitude, the watchword is to avoid any triumphalism. Théoneste Rurangwa, Commander of the Butare town: "I can't comment on that. They may come back, they may want to fight again. And if they decide to do so, we will push them back".
- The capture of the town was achieved without any major fighting in reality. The government left a lot behind when they fled and only had time to make rudimentary poisoned chalices.
- Butare seems to have been the plaything of looters rather than an army on the march. Looting, then, but also settling of scores. Summary executions here replace arrests and trials for the Hutu extremists involved in the massacres and who remained trapped in the city.
- Because not all the militiamen could have escaped. This is, at least, the official reason why the RPF is emptying the neighborhoods and gathering all its inhabitants, those who remain, into camps. In this stadium, for example, 2,000 or 3,000 people who, under the gaze of their liberators, admit to understanding this inconvenience.
- "The situation is calm but not normalized", the military would say. The inhabitants of Butare don't know how long they will spend here. But in Butare at least the guns have fallen silent.