Du soupçon civique à l’enquête citoyenne : controverses sur la politique de la France au Rwanda de 1990 à 1994
Claudine Vidal
Since the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis perpetrated in 1994,
current affairs journalists have conducted a campaign to denounce France’s
diplomatic and military interventions in Rwanda carried out between
October 1990 and August 1994. These authors and their publishers have set
out to reveal the secret and criminal dealings attributed to senior civilian and
military officials. In the 1994 to 2004 period studied, these accusations have
convinced mainly the small circle of activists already involved in unveiling
political intrigues. In 2004, year in which the tenth anniversary of the genocide was commemorated, a “Civil Investigation Commission on France’s
Role in Rwanda during the Genocide of Rwanda Tutsis in 1994” was organized by journalists in conjunction with legal experts. According to the conclusions of the report issued by the Commission, France not only facilitated
but devised the plan to exterminate the Tutsis. The article studies the investigative models used by the Commission and their coherence, deemed sufficient to implicate France in the genocide.
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