A document on the involvment of France in the genocide perpetrated against Tutsi in Rwanda.  

 

 

AFP news coverage of Rwanda during the genocide.  

 

death fears  

At around 8:30pm on April 6, 1994, an aircraft carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down by a surface-to-air missile as it was about to land in Kigali airport. Everyone aboard the plane was killed: Habyarimana; president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira; and a three-man French crew. While it remains unclear who fired the missile, the event is viewed as having ignited the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.  

Memorandum from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Prudence Bushnell communicating to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher of the assassination of Rwandan president Habyarimana and Burundian president Ntaryamira.   

 

Read through official documents containing information that were classified confidential in a certain period of time related to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.  

 

A letter addressed to the Minister of Defence explaining the difficulties facing the LAA batalian in fulfilling its mission due to inefficient weapon.  

 

This is a letter sent to President Habyarimana by the Officers of the group "Friends of Byumba," in which they demanded the restoration of rights to certain officers of the Rwandan Armed Forces who were incomprehensibly sidelined and other expelled.  

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo) is a country located in central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country (by area) in Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is, with a UN estimated population of 66,020,000, the nineteenth most populous nation in the world, and the fourth most populous nation in Africa, as well as the most populous French-speaking country in the world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly, in turn, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire (or Zaïre in French).  

 

 

This paper analyses speeches of the former president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarima as primary sources of information regarding his political thoughts.