Archivo etiqueta «Ruanda»
Par Thierry Vircoulon, chercheur associé à l’Institut français des relations internationales (LE MONDE, 07/01/10):
Alors que le ministre des affaires étrangères français, Bernard Kouchner, entreprend une tournée africaine qui l’amènera au Rwanda et en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), la situation à la frontière de ces pays ne cesse d’être volatile. Longtemps à couteaux tirés, ces deux pays se sont rapprochés en 2009, à la suite des pressions de la communauté internationale. Ce rapprochement s’est traduit par l’arrestation d’un des principaux seigneurs de guerre de la région, Laurent Nkunda, ex-leader du mouvement rebelle tutsi, le Congrès national pour la défense… Seguir leyendo
Africa Report N°151 (CRISIS GROUP, 09/07/09):
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The joint Congo (DRC)-Rwanda military push against the Rwandan Hutu rebels has ended with scant results. Fifteen years after the Rwanda genocide and the establishment of those rebels in the eastern Congo, they have not yet been disarmed and remain a source of extreme violence against civilians. While they are militarily too weak to destabilise Rwanda, their 6,000 or more combatants, including a number of génocidaires, still present a major political challenge for consolidation of peace in the Great Lakes region. They must be disarmed and demobilised if the eastern Congo is… Seguir leyendo
By Herman J. Cohen, the assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/08):
THE conflict in eastern Congo over the past 12 years has been as much a surrogate war between Congo and neighboring Rwanda as an internal ethnic insurgency, as a United Nations report underscored last week. The only way to end a war that has caused five million deaths and forced millions to flee their homes in Congo’s two eastern provinces is to address the conflict’s international dimensions. The role of Rwanda — which borders the provinces and which denied the… Seguir leyendo
Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, rédacteur en chef de la revue XXI (LIBERATION, 13/08/08):
Après le réquisitoire du juge Bruguière, qui fit porter la responsabilité du génocide des Tutsis du Rwanda en 1994 sur les actuelles autorités de Kigali, voici venu le temps de la réplique. Dans un rapport rendu public le 5 août, une commission rwandaise chargée, voici près de deux ans, de «rassembler les preuves montrant l’implication de l’Etat français dans le génocide» conclut à la «responsabilité» de la France dans «la préparation et l’exécution du génocide».
Les deux thèses sont aujourd’hui sur la table. Elles sont bien sûr inconciliables. Et… Seguir leyendo
By Linda Melvern, the author of Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide (Verso 2006) (THE TIMES, 08/08/08):
There is remarkable television footage shot in the first days of the genocide in Rwanda. It shows a large room in the French Embassy in Kigali filled floor to ceiling with shredded documents. This was probably the paper trail that might have revealed the depth of involvement between the Elysée Palace and the Hutu faction responsible for massacring hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and opposition Hutu.
This week Rwanda’s commission of inquiry published its findings into the role of France in the genocide… Seguir leyendo
By David Ignatius (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/05/08):
It happened just 14 years ago — the slaughter of roughly a million people here in only 100 days. “More people had been killed more quickly than in any other mass killing in recorded history,” writes Martin Meredith in his book “The Fate of Africa.”
And yet today there are few visible traces of the genocide that began in April 1994. It’s not that Rwandans have forgotten, but that they seem to have willed themselves to live in the present. That makes this place feel different from other post-conflict states I know, such… Seguir leyendo
Por Nicole Muchnik, pintora y escritora (EL PAÍS, 14/05/08):
Ruanda es un pequeño país anclado en la región de los Grandes Lagos y fronterizo con Uganda, Tanzania, la República Democrática del Congo (ex Zaire) y Burundi. Un 80% de sus ocho millones de habitantes son hutus; casi todo el resto, tutsis.
Desde el fin de los años 1980, Francia apoyaba abiertamente al presidente hutu Habyarimana, a pesar de lo que se sabía en todos los observatorios internacionales: que las Fuerzas Armadas Ruandesas (FAR), junto con las milicias hutus, estaban involucradas en una feroz represión de todos los opositores tutsis; entre… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Carrero, presidente del Fórum Internacional por la Verdad y la Justicia en el África de los Grandes Lagos, y Jordi Palou-Loverdos, representante legal de las víctimas españolas y ruandesas y del Fórum ante la Audiencia Nacional (EL PAÍS, 21/03/08):
En febrero, el juez de la Audiencia Nacional Fernando Andreu dictó 40 órdenes de arresto internacional por delito de genocidio en Ruanda y la República Democrática del Congo contra otros tantos militares que ocupan altos cargos en el actual Gobierno. Entre los muertos, nueve españoles: seis misiones y tres miembros de Médicos del Mundo.
En Ruanda, el misionero Joaquim… Seguir leyendo
By Michael Gerson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/11/07):
We are used to seeing aged Holocaust survivors with faded photographs, telling their stories to remind the young and forgetful. So it is shocking to meet a 31-year-old genocide survivor with memories so fresh they bleed.
I talked to Freddy Mutanguha in a field of white crosses, near a half-finished monument to perhaps 800,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide. “My mom,” he recalled, “gave money to be killed by a bullet, because she saw the machetes and knew what they would do to her. But the bullet was too expensive.”
The mass violence… Seguir leyendo
By Andrew Wallis, the author of ‘Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide’ (THE TIMES, 05/12/06):
The hastily arranged car boot sale outside the French Embassy in downtown Kigali last Monday did good business. On offer were laptop computers, televisions, three-piece suites and, well, even the cars themselves. Given the decision taken by the Rwandan Government ten days ago to expel the French Ambassador, his staff and to close all official French buildings in the tiny Central African country, there was clearly little expectation of a return.
Behind these scenes of gloomy embassy employees packing… Seguir leyendo
By James Smith, chief executive of the Aegis Trust (THE GUARDIAN, 21/11/06):
The Guardian published an article that centred on a five-month-old report on the Murambi genocide site in Rwanda (Two years late and mired in controversy: the British memorial to Rwanda’s past, November 13).
Two years late for what? It may have been desirable to open the memorial centre two years ago, but no opening date had been set. The Aegis Trust, a British charity, was asked by the Rwandan government to help convey the genocide story at Murambi, where 50,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in 1994. We do not… Seguir leyendo
Par André Guichaoua, professeur à l’université Paris-I, témoin-expert auprès du bureau du procureur du TPIR depuis 1996 (LIBERATION, 23/05/06):
epuis plus de dix ans, les commémorations du mois d’avril donnent l’occasion aux autorités rwandaises de rappeler les responsabilités internationales dans le déclenchement et l’accomplissement du génocide des Rwandais tutsis. Cette année, la relance des accusations a été particulièrement agressive. Parmi les autorités et puissances étrangères, le président Paul Kagame a nommément dénoncé à plusieurs reprises, les Nations unies, la France et la Belgique (par exemple le 26 avril, lors de diverses interviews accordées au cours de sa visite au Canada).… Seguir leyendo
Rwanda, l’enquête inachevée. Colette Braeckman est journaliste au quotidien belge Le Soir. Spécialiste de l’Afrique des Grands Lacs, elle a écrit plusieurs livres sur le Rwanda (LE MONDE, 09/12/05).
Las lecciones del genocidio de Ruanda. Dominique de Villepin, ministro del Interior francés y ex ministro de Exteriores (EL MUNDO, 07/04/04).
I.- Las viudas del genocidio, II.- Leopold, el asesino y III.- El hombre que mató a su mujer. John Carlin (EL PAIS, 17/08/03).