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Léonidas Rusatira : « Nous dénonçons et nous condamnons officiellement le génocide et tous les autres crimes qui ont été commis dans ce pays »
Card Number 35279
Number
35279
Author
Ceylac, Catherine
Author
Duquesne, Benoît
Author
Normandin, Jean-Louis
Date
9 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940709
Time
24:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 24 heures
Title
Léonidas Rusatira : « Nous dénonçons et nous condamnons officiellement le génocide et tous les autres crimes qui ont été commis dans ce pays »
Subtitle
Au Rwanda la formation d'un gouvernement d'unité nationale est sérieusement envisagée.
Size
20563 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
en
Abstract
- In Rwanda, the outline of a political settlement is taking shape. The formation of a national unity government is being seriously considered. The government army is ready to lay down its arms. The officers are 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.
- 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.