Suite à la parution du rapport d’une commission Rwandaise apportant un nouveau lot d’accusations à l’encontre de la France et de son rôle honteux pendant le génocide de 1994, le Figaro a publié deux articles illustrés par la photo suivante : lliioottiieerrssiinnhhaallaaddwweeeeppaa

Évidemment, je n’ai pas pu m’empêcher de commenter. Choisir comme illustration d’un article sur l’intervention de la France dans le génocide Rwandais l’image d’un soldat Français dans une pose bienveillante auprès de deux enfants Rwandais ravis avec en arrière plan deux femmes souriantes est d’une malhonnêteté éditoriale crasse. La vérité historique du rôle de la France est encore sujette à controverse, mais une chose est certaine : l’immonde massacre organisé pendant lequel une large tranche de la population Rwandaise menée par des extrémistes a exterminé 10% des habitants du pays en cent jours sous les yeux de la communauté internationale n’a rien à voir avec cette photo dans la droite ligne de la propagande qui a entourée l’opération Turquoise. J’ai ajouté à mon commentaire qu’il est heureux que le ridicule ne tue pas car le génocide serait loin d’être terminé.

Apparemment mon commentaire n’a pas plu aux censeurs du Figaro qui ont tôt fait de le faire disparaître. On peut applaudir la fidélité de ce journal à la ligne du gouvernement. C’est exactement le genre de comportement qui explique pourquoi après quatorze ans la France n’a toujours pas fait face à ses responsabilité et assumé son rôle dans la crise Rwandaise. Un débat démocratique est nécessaire, les archives doivent être ouvertes et la vérité doit émerger. Peut-être que la France n’a pas été plus mauvaise qu’ailleurs ou peut-être qu’elle s’est abandonnée à des errements coupables. Quoi qu’il en soit il ne s’agit pas de faire de l’auto-flagellation gratuite, mais simplement d’admettre nos erreurs et de les expliquer pour qu’elles ne soient pas reproduites.

Le fait que certains responsables politiques de l’époque soient toujours en activité ne facilite pas la transparence. Mais contrairement à ce que pensent les pseudo-défenseurs de l’honneur de la France, continuer à tourner le dos au débat n’est pas un service que nous rendons à notre pays !

Et si ces accusations sont si fausses, les personnes visées feraient bien de porter plainte pour diffamation - ce serait l’occasion du déballage tant attendu. Ou peut-être qu’elles ont des choses à cacher.

BBC News Africa at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7542418.stm - "Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed.An independent Rwandan commission said France was aware of preparations for the genocide and helped train the ethnic Hutu militia perpetrators.The report also accused French troops of direct involvement in the killings.It named 33 senior French military and political figures that it said should be prosecuted. France has previously denied any such responsibility.Among those named in the report were the late former President, Francois Mitterrand, and the then Prime Minister Edouard Balladur.Two men who went on to become prime minister were also named - Alain Juppe, the foreign minister at the time, and his then chief aide, Dominique de Villepin.The French foreign ministry told the BBC it would only respond to the fresh allegations after reading the report, which was released on Tuesday afternoon.Earlier this year France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner denied French responsibility in connection with the genocide, but said political errors had been made.Some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militias in just 100 days in 1994.The report says France backed Rwanda's Hutu government with political, military, diplomatic and logistical support.It accuses France of training Hutu militias responsible for the slaughter, helping plan the genocide, and participating in the killings."French forces directly assassinated Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis... French forces committed several rapes on Tutsi survivors" said a statement from the justice ministry cited by AFP news agency."Considering the seriousness of the alleged crimes, the Rwandan government has urged the relevant authorities to bring the accused French politicians and military officials to justice" the statement said.It further alleged that French forces did nothing to challenge checkpoints used by Hutu forces in the genocide."They clearly requested that the Interahamwes continue to man those checkpoints and kill Tutsis attempting to flee" it said.The BBC's Geoffrey Mutagoma in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, says the commission spent nearly two years investigating France's alleged role in the genocide.It heard testimonies from genocide survivors, researchers, writers and reporters.The 500-page document was presented to the Rwanda's government last November, but was not made public until now.Rwanda has repeatedly accused France of arming and training the Hutu militias that perpetrated the genocide, and of dragging its feet in co-operating with the investigations that followed.France has maintained that its forces helped protect civilians during a UN-sanctioned mission in Rwanda at the time.The two countries have had a frosty relationship since 2006 when a French judge implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the downing in 1994 of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane - an event widely seen as triggering the killings.President Kagame has always denied the charge. He says Mr Habyarimana, a Hutu, was killed by Hutu extremists who then blamed the incident on Tutsi rebels to provide the pretext for the genocide".

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