Title: Silent accomplice : the untold story of France's role in the Rwandan genocide /
Authors: Wallis, Andrew
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Genocide Rwanda; Rwanda History; Rwanda Foreign relations France.; France Foreign relations Rwanda.
Abstract: The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. This work reveals that France was secretly providing diplomatic support to the genocidaires.
Contents: A policy of bad habits -- Invasion and intervention -- Civil War and peace talks -- Militia, massacres and Arusha -- Retreat -- Arming the genocide -- Operation turquoise -- Bisesero and withdrawal -- Burying genocide.