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…le fracas des canons du FPR, la peur de tomber entre leurs mains et l'espoir d'atteindre cette fameuse zone de sécurité des Français
Card Number 35231
Number
35231
Author
Ceylac, Catherine
Author
Duquesne, Benoît
Author
Normandin, Jean-Louis
Date
7 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940707
Time
24:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 24 heures
Title
…le fracas des canons du FPR, la peur de tomber entre leurs mains et l'espoir d'atteindre cette fameuse zone de sécurité des Français
Subtitle
Faustin Twagiramungu souhaite voir les soldats français être remplacés dans les plus brefs délais par les forces de l'ONU.
Size
23971 bytes
Pages nb.
3
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
en
Abstract
- In Rwanda, the first humanitarian flight in weeks landed in Kigali, and 50 Ghanaian soldiers arrived to reinforce the UN peacekeepers.
- After three months of bloody conflict and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the population is still petrified and trying to reach the humanitarian zone controlled by the French in the southwest of the country.
- All it took was a noise to send the crowd rushing onto the road. A noise, a fear, a hope, the crash of RPF guns, the fear of falling into their hands, and the hope of reaching that famous French security zone.
- So they all walk and crowd together for days, coming from Butare and elsewhere, to meet these French patrols. We are at the edge of the security zone. Everyone has only one question in mind: should they continue walking? Are they finally safe?
- Yet the killers came here as they did elsewhere. In this jeep, Father Emmanuel and one of his students. He is Hutu, she is Tutsi. He was able to save her and a few others from the massacre. But at her school, it was the students themselves who separated the Tutsi from the Hutu. The young Tutsi student: "We were separated because the students from the Marie Merci school group didn't want to live with Tutsi. The people from here came to the school to kill the Tutsi who were there. There were many deaths". - Her classmates are also there, preparing to be evacuated by the military, like her. Father says they are threatened in turn. Does he really believe it, or is it time for forgiveness? Diane is safe tonight. Where she sleeps, there are no Hutu. - Rwanda, however, seems to be moving toward a political settlement of the conflict. Talks are continuing to establish a ceasefire.
- On the other hand, a moderate Hutu, Faustin Twagiramungu, appointed as part of an international agreement, could install a new broad coalition government in Kigali, as early as next week. His wish is to see the French soldiers replaced as soon as possible by UN forces. Faustin Twagiramungu: "It was France who said that, by the end of July, its troops must have left Rwanda! Consequently, its troops must be replaced by UNAMIR 2! And this UNAMIR 2 should be dispatched quickly so that it can settle in and take over. France was involved in the resolution or settlement of this conflict. So it might be a good idea to involve countries other than France".
- After three months of bloody conflict and hundreds of thousands of deaths, the population is still petrified and trying to reach the humanitarian zone controlled by the French in the southwest of the country.
- All it took was a noise to send the crowd rushing onto the road. A noise, a fear, a hope, the crash of RPF guns, the fear of falling into their hands, and the hope of reaching that famous French security zone.
- So they all walk and crowd together for days, coming from Butare and elsewhere, to meet these French patrols. We are at the edge of the security zone. Everyone has only one question in mind: should they continue walking? Are they finally safe?
- Yet the killers came here as they did elsewhere. In this jeep, Father Emmanuel and one of his students. He is Hutu, she is Tutsi. He was able to save her and a few others from the massacre. But at her school, it was the students themselves who separated the Tutsi from the Hutu. The young Tutsi student: "We were separated because the students from the Marie Merci school group didn't want to live with Tutsi. The people from here came to the school to kill the Tutsi who were there. There were many deaths". - Her classmates are also there, preparing to be evacuated by the military, like her. Father says they are threatened in turn. Does he really believe it, or is it time for forgiveness? Diane is safe tonight. Where she sleeps, there are no Hutu. - Rwanda, however, seems to be moving toward a political settlement of the conflict. Talks are continuing to establish a ceasefire.
- On the other hand, a moderate Hutu, Faustin Twagiramungu, appointed as part of an international agreement, could install a new broad coalition government in Kigali, as early as next week. His wish is to see the French soldiers replaced as soon as possible by UN forces. Faustin Twagiramungu: "It was France who said that, by the end of July, its troops must have left Rwanda! Consequently, its troops must be replaced by UNAMIR 2! And this UNAMIR 2 should be dispatched quickly so that it can settle in and take over. France was involved in the resolution or settlement of this conflict. So it might be a good idea to involve countries other than France".
Comment
On Father Emmanuel Uwayezu, see the African Rights report of May 2009.