Date
Wednesday July 6, 1994
Surtitre
Guerilla forces continue westward drive and prepare to form government 'within days'
Titre
Rwandan rebels condemn French 'safe zone' policy
Citation
French troops continued to fortify their positions ans set up joint road blocks yesterday with militiamen responsible for widespread massacres of Rwandas Tutsi population, less than ten miles from the front line with rebel fighters in Gikongoro. [...]
Colonel Jacques Rosier, the commander of the operation in western Rwanda who has been told to block the rebel advance, said yesterday that the only people who would be allowed to carry arms behind governmental lines would be regular soldiers. [...] By noon a bar full of drunken men who claimed to be commandos in the Rwanda army said they would ``slaughter'' the rebels if they advanced.
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