French weekly magazines review
13 April 2014
Dossier: Rwanda remembers genocide 20 years later
L'Express says the notion by the Muslim author that Jesus may not have
been the pacifist touted about in the bible is bound to cause
revulsion and shock waves in Christian circles.
As Rwanda commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide,
Marianne comments about the case being made against France, President
Paul Kagame charging that Paris played a direct role in the preparing
and execution of the genocide. Marianne reports that the accusations
took the government by surprise forcing the Elysée to call off sending
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira to represent France at the
commemoration in Kigali.
The diplomatic row it explains ended with the expulsion of France's
envoy to Rwanda. The stand off according to Marianne was clearly a
stunt to make Kagame look like a hero during the commemoration.
Marianne says that fake heroism Kagame may have earned from the
diplomatic row is bound to be wiped out UN-backed charges that his
forces committed crimes against humanity in the DRC, and the targeted
assassination of dissidents, including a former top RPF intelligence
officer strangled to death in a South Africa hotel room.
Marianne caught up with Franco-Cameroonian journalist Charles Onana
who has been investigating the massacre for years. He dismisses the
charges made against France by the Rwandan leader in a long interview.
The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné holds that Kagame described as
a very undemocratic and skillful tactician knew exactly what he was
doing when he unleashed the tsunami against France. It reports that he
was the one who crushed the hardline Hutu regime installed in Kigali
in the summer of 1994, putting an end to the 100-day massacre of
Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Le Canard describes it a holocaust carried with unprecedented
intensity - 800,000 people killed in three months, at the rate of 8000
people per day, almost four times more than during the First World
War.
Presidential election 2012
Le Point accuses the Rwandan leader of playing with the conscience of
the genocide victims and of trying to mask his authoritarian excesses.
It points to a clear message Kagame addressed to his enemies. "Whoever
betrays our cause or wishes evil to befall on his people is set to
become will become a victim", he said.
Le Nouvel Observateur reviews a new book on the Rwandan genocide by
French writer Jean Hatzfeld titled Englebert des Collines: Tales from
Rwandan Streams. The hero is a Tutsi sexagenarian vagabond from the
market town of Nyamata where 50,000 Tutsis representing more than 90
percent of the population were slaughtered in a 2-months killing
spree. Engelbert recalls the horror scenes still very fresh in his
mind and blood reddened rivers he swam cross in his desperate escape
to safety. Another genocide survivor Claudine still grieves about the
Hutu tribesmen, with machetes in hand cut until their arms were
broken.
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