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Four days long, French troops stood by the massacre of tutsi survivors at Bisesero |
Warning: the documents checked in column G express the ideology of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi or show tolerance towards it.
| T | G | Date | Author | Abstract | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | * | 2 juin 1994 | Kayishema, Clément | Le préfet Kayishema annonce une attaque du FPR sur Kibuye et réclame un renfort militaire ainsi que des fusils et munitions pour la protection civile | Préfecture de Kibuye |
| D | * | 12 juin 1994 | Kayishema, Clément | Pour le ratissage du secteur Bisesero, le préfet demande le soutien de la gendarmerie, des grenades, des cartouches et des cassettes de balles pour mitrailleuses | Préfecture de Kibuye |
| D | 18 juin 1994 | Karemera, Edouard | Edouard Karemera, ministre de l'Intérieur, demande au colonel Nsengiyumva d'appuyer la gendarmerie de Kibuye dans l'opération de ratissage à Bisesero devenu un sanctuaire du FPR | Min. Intérieur, Kigali | |
| D | 23 juin 1994 | Rosier, Jacques | Colonel Rosier meets Colonel Nsengiyumva, organizer of the massacres. "It's the sacred union", he reports | COS | |
| V | June 26, 1994 | Amanpour, Christiane | On June 26, 1994, journalist Sam Kiley informed Captain Eric Bucquet of the RICM on the situation of the last Tutsi survivors in Bisesero who were still being hunted down | CNN | |
| D | 27 juin 1994 | Kiley, Sam | When the French troops left Gisenyi, houses continued to burn in the commune of Bisesero, ten miles inland from Lake Kivu near Kibuye | The Times | |
| V | 27 juin 1994 | Amar, Paul | Colonel Rosier presents the tutsi survivors hunted in Bisesero as FPR fighters | France 2 | |
| D | 27 juin 1994 | Gillier, Marin | According to Marin Gillier of the marine commandos, the Tutsi of the RPF are terrorizing the region. An "assault" was launched against 1,500 of them on the morning of June 27, 1994. He received the support of Minister Eliezer Niyitegeka, organizer of the massacres | COS | |
| V | 27 juin 1994 | Poivre d'Arvor, Patrick | A clash between RPF forces and Hutu militias, supported by the Rwandan army, took place 15 km from Kibuye, cutting the government zone in two | TF1 | |
| D | 29 juin 1994 | Duval, Jean-Rémy | The date of Diego-Duval's fax reporting his meeting with Tutsi survivors on June 27, 1994 is changed to June 29 | Armée française | |
| D | 27 juin 1994 | General Lafourcade PC informs Paris that 200 Tutsi were attacked by militiamen supervised by Rwandan soldiers | PCIAT Turquoise | ||
| V | 28 juin 1994 | Savriacouty, Claude | Sergeant Meynier tells the meeting of the Tutsi in Bisesero to Colonel Rosier who does not react | ECPAD | |
| D | 29 juin 1994 | Wrong, Michela | French officials say RPF members have infiltrated near Lake Kivu and are harassing villages south of Kibuye, aiming to cut off the government zone | Reuters | |
| D | 29 juin 1994 | Garraud, Dominique | Air commandos discover not the rumored fighters but emaciated ghosts | Libération | |
| D | 29 juin 1994 | Millet, Christian | Between 1,000 to 2,000 "FPR fighters" are 3 or 4 km from Gishyita by Lake Kivu | AFP | |
| D | 29 juin 1994 | Saint-Exupéry, Patrick (de) | A French reconnaisance group meets on June 27, 1994 tracked survivors and leaves by telling them to survive two or three days while the killers are waiting for the French to resume their "work" | Le Figaro |