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Pour l'instant les militaires français ont évité tout contact avec les miliciens, les Tutsi du FPR. Mais plus on s'enfonce à l'intérieur du pays, plus on risque de les rencontrer
Card Number 29014
Number
29014
Author
Pernaut, Jean-Pierre
Author
Nakad, Nahida
Author
Jentile, Catherine
Author
Faucon, Régis
Date
27 juin 1994
Ymd
19940627
Time
13:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 13 heures
Title
Pour l'instant les militaires français ont évité tout contact avec les miliciens, les Tutsi du FPR. Mais plus on s'enfonce à l'intérieur du pays, plus on risque de les rencontrer
Subtitle
Il y a une tension certaine avec les extrémistes sur le terrain qui voient d'un mauvais œil l'intervention de la France.
File name
Size
30830 bytes
Pages nb.
4
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- In Rwanda, Operation Turquoise continues. Throughout yesterday [June 26], military planes did not stop their rotations at Goma airport, which is the command post for Operation Turquoise. The French army plans a rotation of 20 planes per day which will transport 500 tons of equipment. There are currently 1,200 French soldiers on the border with Rwanda. The planned strength is 2,500 men. The device will be complete within a maximum of one week.
- Yesterday [June 26] the commander of the operation recalled that his mission is to stop the massacres while waiting for the United Nations force which should be in Rwanda in two months at the latest. Jean-Claude Lafourcade: "Calm returns to the regions where we are carrying out our reconnaissance. If calm returns to complete between the different parties, then we will no longer need a major device".
- For the moment the French army is advancing with great caution. There is a certain tension with the extremists on the ground who take a dim view of France's intervention. As long as the military device is not complete, the army will therefore avoid areas controlled by the RPF.
- In the south of the country, the operation started on Friday [June 24] between Bukavu and the famous Cyangugu refugee camp. 300 men from a joint detachment, mainly paratroopers and commandos, passed through here. The French notably protect the largest Tutsi refugee camp in the region, that of Nyarushishi. Nearly 8,000 people crowded there. They welcomed the paratroopers with reluctance: rumors circulated that the French had come to massacre them. Today confidence seems established.
- For the moment the French have still not met the men of the RPF, fiercely hostile to the French intervention. Régis Faucon: "We avoided all contact with the militiamen, the Tutsis of the RPF. But clearly, the deeper we go into the interior of the country, the more we risk encountering them".
- Alain Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs, believes that "the first objectives have been achieved, but the priority now is to ensure that the United Nations troops arrive on the ground as quickly as possible".
- There is also still very violent fighting in Kigali. The RPF mortars lacked precision and the Red Cross hospital located at the foot of the hill took its share of shells. The Red Cross had negotiated a truce of 30 minutes, the RPF does not respect it. The leaders of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders no longer have a place to bury the dead.
- Yesterday [June 26] the commander of the operation recalled that his mission is to stop the massacres while waiting for the United Nations force which should be in Rwanda in two months at the latest. Jean-Claude Lafourcade: "Calm returns to the regions where we are carrying out our reconnaissance. If calm returns to complete between the different parties, then we will no longer need a major device".
- For the moment the French army is advancing with great caution. There is a certain tension with the extremists on the ground who take a dim view of France's intervention. As long as the military device is not complete, the army will therefore avoid areas controlled by the RPF.
- In the south of the country, the operation started on Friday [June 24] between Bukavu and the famous Cyangugu refugee camp. 300 men from a joint detachment, mainly paratroopers and commandos, passed through here. The French notably protect the largest Tutsi refugee camp in the region, that of Nyarushishi. Nearly 8,000 people crowded there. They welcomed the paratroopers with reluctance: rumors circulated that the French had come to massacre them. Today confidence seems established.
- For the moment the French have still not met the men of the RPF, fiercely hostile to the French intervention. Régis Faucon: "We avoided all contact with the militiamen, the Tutsis of the RPF. But clearly, the deeper we go into the interior of the country, the more we risk encountering them".
- Alain Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs, believes that "the first objectives have been achieved, but the priority now is to ensure that the United Nations troops arrive on the ground as quickly as possible".
- There is also still very violent fighting in Kigali. The RPF mortars lacked precision and the Red Cross hospital located at the foot of the hill took its share of shells. The Red Cross had negotiated a truce of 30 minutes, the RPF does not respect it. The leaders of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders no longer have a place to bury the dead.