Well, when you commit (Turkey on the Armenians, U.S. on Native Americans, Zionists on Palestinians, the list is endless, really) or enable them, of course you deny it!!!
Besides, they were only black people (Bill Clinton's watch).
PARIS - France yesterday dismissed as "unacceptable" a Rwandan report alleging the involvement of top-level French politicians, including former President Francois Mitterrand and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, in the 1994 genocide that killed up to 800,000 people.
Mitterrand, who was president at the time of the genocide, and Villepin, then a senior adviser at the Foreign Ministry, are among 13 senior officials accused of "complicity" in the "preparation and execution of the genocide."
Rwanda has long accused France of providing training to the militias that led the mass slaughter of the Tutsi minority. But the latest report, a 500-page document issued by the Rwandan Justice Ministry on Tuesday, for the first time links specific - and very senior - officials to the allegations and hints at possible future indictments.
None of the officials responded individually. But Romain Nadal, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, called the report biased.
"One can question the objectivity of the mandate" of the commission, Nadal said in an online news conference. He said its report "contains unacceptable accusations against French politicians and military officials."
The question of a French role in the Rwandan genocide has long haunted relations between the two countries.
In 1998, a French parliamentary investigation exonerated the authorities of all responsibility for the killings. But lawmakers also acknowledged that prior to 1994, France was one of Rwanda's biggest military suppliers.
Gee, I wonder who the others were?
In 1990, French troops were sent to repel a Tutsi rebellion organized from neighboring Uganda. They stayed until 1993, when an international peace agreement replaced them with UN peacekeepers.
Legal experts said that, theoretically, Rwanda could indict French nationals and request their extradition to Rwanda to face trial. But they also said that, in practice, the report was more about politics than the law.
Less than two years ago a senior French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, tried to bring the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, before a UN tribunal for allegedly masterminding the plane crash that killed the former president and ended a fragile peace between the Hutu-dominated government and the Tutsi rebels led by Kagame."That last bit has stink all over it.
CUI BONO, oui?
