Rwanda genocide: Twenty-five years after the massacre | Reporters Plus • FRANCE 24 English
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Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, both Kigali and Paris are still trying to shed light on some of the grey areas of the massacre of nearly one million people between April and July 1994. Did the then French government turn a blind eye to the evidence? Did it allow some of the perpetrators to go free? In this exclusive documentary, we hear from witnesses and observers in an effort to understand what led to one of the worst genocides in history.
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How can France be seen as trying to stop the Genocide when they supplied arms to the Hutu generals? The French, alongside the UN & Belgium have a lot to answer for...
@Fanta Graham Some victims have filed claims in *Belgian* and *French* courts, and even in the *UN’s* own administrative court. The judges in all of those courts have shamefully dismissed or blocked all cases filed there!
They’ll use a combination of delaying tactics, trickery or tangential pretexts to ensure the cases never get anywhere.
True. France and China supplied the Hutus.
As a species we let this happen. Ten thousand murders every 24 hours
Not a lot of people remember this we need to remember this crazy thing that happened
Yeah, France, among other nations, definitely has Rwandan blood on its hands..
I’ll never understand how a so called human being can beat, slash, kill another human being let alone innocent Children, babies, woman the old and vulnerable. There’s no way to justify it. None.
Same. I couldn’t harm anyone -ever. (Unless by accident)
I would truly give my life than kill another. Not just talk on here, I’ve been a nurse for so many years, and I’ve been known after a late shift, at 11:00pm (2300h) to go home, put my infant daughter to bed, then call work to see if a patient (who was close to passing away) was. I have cried and prayed when patients died in my arms alone. It’s a career that chose me, I didn’t choose it. ❤️
@@lisalangille2071 thank you Lisa x youre an angel
Horrific. Especially their own friends and neighbors. These people couldn’t reason and see that they were being used? Heart breaking. Now that Kabuga is afraid of being tried in Africa, which is interesting cause he showed no mercy to others yet he expects mercy. He needs to suffer the same fate or worse!
And France was heavily responsible for it.
I'm gonna say it: MEN
The killers enjoyed what they did. They would do it again of they had the change
3:44 He’s not a former “fighter”. He just finished telling you his task was to murder passersby with a bludgeon. Not to fight.
"Tutsi fighter"?? A stupid word to use. The man is a genocide perpetrator, he and the group which was called Interahamwe (President Habyarimana's party's youth),Impuzamugambi; killed innocent unarmed men, women, old or young even the children, the little children were not spared. Second corrections Rwanda and Rwandans don't celebrate the Anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwandans remember, they commemorate The Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Don't use the word anniversary as if Rwandans are ever happy about it. You Europeans celebrate the end of both world wars because it's victory day(s). Genocides are not celebrated like anniversary, we remember, we commemorate those are the respective words to use.
@@lincolnmuremyangango7454 what I noticed about the speaker is that he's still living with so much guilt, it's eating him deep
This is called journalism - a French media house reporting the misdeeds of its own army. 👍👍
I wish we had such courageous journalism in my country, India..
What about wion??
i just want india to stop calling me at dinner time.
The French have a history of being extremely critical of their own government.
That’s what they do best. Inflict pain and trauma on people, then ‘look back’ and acknowledge their errors, and do it all over again 🥲
France could have helped to stop the genocide but they assisted the killers. France should be held responsible for all those deaths as much as those who did the killings. They gave a free pass to them.
You are clearly talking about a subject you do not understand
The so called genocide stoppers were the genocide mastermind, it was all planned, engineered by Paul Kagame, he used killings as a means to get on power
@@mirkowolf5897 Proof?
Any sources for me to see to even begin to take in what your saying as true?
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 I gave you a source but it turns out UA-cam protects criminals. Because they removed the comment preventing you from seeing it.
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 You will use Google and join what I am going to post in *bold* with dashes. Stupid censoring.
The French goverment never listened to their own General who warned them about the genocide.
Sadly the general fear and worry was accurate and warning has come true and and reality
And the UN failed miserably to listen to Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire also.
United nations is lazy lardass
@@carlesock7261 I used to have an apartment in New York overlooking the UN. Lots of food. Lots of protection. Lots of bull crap.
Invoking the UN mandate for inaction is murderous hypocrisy bordering on evil duplicity.
Did they require a UN mandate to initially arm the government forces for genocide?
The day Africa will do away with tribalism, Africa will bloom
I'm not parochial but you know it's not going away soon. In fact; it is education and development that will take away tribalism.
Sadly global warming will make much of Africa uninhabitable in a few decades.
There have been tribes since the beginning of time. Africa's problem is a bit deeper than that.
The mindset of one of our own tribe have destroyed Africa.
this is why they have been hiding kabuga for this long
Just imagine what fills some people's memory!! God help Rwanda.
After watching the whole thing, I came to the conclusion that France did not care.
Yes, indeed we came to the same conclusion.🤔🤨
France is scum. That’s it.
Why should they? Was it France responsability? The very awake of the killings, the RPF Tutsi rebels sent an emissary to UN to stop any UN peacekeeping intervention…
these people recall killing tutsi's as if theyre describing something casual.
Ken Hall it is causal in 3rd world countries
@@dannyg5598 You sound like the French president when told that, maybe, he should quit sponsoring genocide in Rwanda. His reply: “You know, in those countries, a genocide isn’t such a big deal.”
@@habenkibreab7358 Unfortunately he did, which was consistent with his evil actions in Rwanda. My reply assumes that when gonzo writes “causal” he really means “casual”.
@@rutonde like a person who understands chronology and that cause comes BEFORE effect? just because fireman, aren't able to put out a fire, that doesn't mean they started it. the firemen are not "the reason the house burned down", they just weren't able to stop what was going on before they ever arrived and they are not responsible for the arsonist nor are they suddenly worse than the arsonist for failing to prevent him from being a firebug. you are being dishonest and making excuses for murderous, hateful, and jealous bigots. the french president wasn't wielding a machete, nor was he the reason the people in question are so casual as they explain their actions... the people being interviewed are the cause of the french president"s point of view, not the other way around. do they act like genocide is a big deal as they describe hacking women and children to death with machetes or are they acting CASUAL, as if its NOT A BIG DEAL?! okay then. the only people responsible are the rawandans that spewed hate and hacked up their own neighbors with machetes, not the french president or the u.n. etc.
I mean literally the first man has tears in his eyes and gets choked up when talking about it?
' when I was done with my killing they told us to welcome the French.'
We sang for them.
Absolutely insane. 🙏 For the 800,000 and more.
He captured the thesis of the conflict with that lucid statement.
Lies
@@IsaroBururu Really? Prove it because I don't believe it was lies after France helped the government and their murderers escape and set up camps for them.
@@kristab321 France never help the former government at anything, France intervened in 1990 in accordance with the military cooperation between the two countries, then left in 1992 after a cease fire! In 1994 France returned but this time under UN resolution!
I have so many evidences that all you have been told is lies! And if you willing to be told the truth i will be glad to tell you!
@@IsaroBururu So you know more than the person that put pain in????? Troll!
I fled Rwanda in 94 after my parents died, along with my sister and grandparents. I’ll never go back not even to visit!
Shame on France shame on you!
And that's the reason the French supported the Biafrans against Nigeria, to end English dominance in the region. They are also helping dictator Biya in Cameroun to massacre Ambazonians
This makes so much sense.
So when will Africans be free from mental slavery.
Aha , no doubt, it's really textbook example that france was responsible for that tragedy and many others.
The hutu's are responsible. How can you take responsibility off of the actual killers?
@@terintiaflavius3349 because they were funded by France they literally sent them guns to help kill ppl
@@terintiaflavius3349 And nobody is saying the Hutus aren’t in the fault either
The French are as responsible as the Hutus
Stop twisting the words
No the Hutus were responsible. Full stop.
Why is it that we as Africans run to the west for help. As if history hasn't taught us anything😔😔
Maybe the better question is, why do Africans always need help?
@@jeffblack1644because of the west
@@jeffblack1644Easy answer. The white man/Colonial era. Colonized the entire continent, then disregarded it.
🇫🇷 France too much African blood in your hands 👐🏻 and it continues to is shame...
Just look at all The French Colonies, Etc Mali, Burk nafaso. formerly Upper Volta., Niger and DRC.
Yup, and colonialism was the cause of a lot of bloodshed in Africa.
France already pay by allowing illegal immigrants to live on their country
@@SuperKwame1 DRC never been a French Colony.
France is biggest genocidal power of world .look at north africa genocide
We the Africans make ourselves look stupid....
Some
The sad thing is that certain African 'leaders' continue to rebuild French fallen cathedrals.
The French only intervened when it became clear that the genocidaires would be defeated. And the most idiotic reason to side with the Genocidaires? They spoke the same language.
France is absolutely guilty whatever they say
Thanks.
Exactly
How nice for the relation between the two neigbouring countries Belgium and France wherein one had people who were brutally murdered by the allies of the other. This is betrayal of the Rwandans and the Belgians.
It’s very important for the public opinion…to give names of those who committed atrocities…as well as the description of the genocidal plan that you are talking about….
Kagame wasn't president of Rwanda since 1994, he became president in 2000
Kagame was still president and in control. The president btn 1994 to 2000 was just a shadow
@@turyhumphrey7767 He was not.
Don’t be naive, he was the president since 94 despite the puppet who was there
@@IsaroBururu you don’t know what you are talking about
It”s over one million as I have seen in the country many times…France was completely and utterly complicit in a human genocide and still their sorrow needs to be expressed MUCH MORE strongly for this and by helping much more with economic support for the country….They however were first class at allowing/hiding many of the mass murderers and giving them help to escape…
They were complicit. All those responsible must be brought to face justice. There is no enough blame game that can pacify France from what they did.
Finally its beginning to come out. Too little too late :( Shame on the entire world.
Oh it's been out since it was going on, while leftists (who so desperately want to be seen as the best of humanity & its saviors) di absolutely nothing to stop it. (The Clintons here in the US kept sweeping it under the rug & pretending it didn't exist - which is why I didn't vote for that evil hag during our 2016 election. I've had neighbors & friends who were missionaries in the region & others who were Rwandan survivors.)
I agree😭💔
100% FACTS!!
What would happen if all countries just stayed in their own countries and minded their own business? The UN has never solved anything.
in this case, even more slaughtered rawandans probably. why do people forget who was weilding the machetes?
That would be the worst for the entire world and even more so in some countries & at certain times. Some countries are primarily nothing but the descendants of other countries & in one some spout bs about a flag being their "heritage" but would deny assistance to the very country/ies of their actual heritage. It comes down to the right thing. Anyone would want their neighbor to call for help if they were trapped in their house thats on fire
@@rowdyjohnson6026 Why do people forget about the French Guns being utilized to cover fire for the machete wielding hutus
Ummm... Probably the same things. Ethnic tensions aren't going to end if every country was isolationist.
The horror...........the horror..........
Someone please tell me why they set up camps for the people involved in the genocide?? I can't seem to figure that out....
Because they wanted the genocide to resume. It reveals their blatant malice. French operatives also continued to supply weapons to those camps.
Africa Africans we have to be unites and do our things by ourselves not to invite any foreign countries and move our continent forward ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
We should stop tribal politics in african/corruption and the rest will be history. We will be respected with the whole world
In Rwanda it's different
Our leaders have never changed. From selling us to go be slaves to now bringing in the Chinese
So true
There is no such thing as the Rwandan genocide, it is genocide against the Tutsi of 1994.
I love how this argument takes away personal responsibility from those who engaged in the murders. We know right from wrong just becaue a forigner gives you a gun or asks you to do something does not mean you have to do it.
EXACTLY. It infantilizes the Rwandans. Bottom line is they chose to hack their neighbors to death with machetes! Nobody forced them to do this.
The French arm was heartless . Shame on them.
Don't forget when you point a finger, 3 point back at you. Were was the rest of the world?
@@drivenhome3257 all five of my fingers pointing towards them
1:43 look at his eyes wow this guy is a killer he killed 9 innocents people..
Right. You can see through his eyes that he is a killer. I am pretty sure he killed dozens of people if not more. He is lying on the numbers .
This is heartbreaking !
Lies. The French Army did not intervene jack! It was Paul Kagame's Rwandese Patriotic Front that took the bull by the horns and moved in to save what was left of their countrymen. Indeed, French arms actually ended up with the Hutu-led army and the Interahamwe. That's why the first thing Paul Kagame did when he took power was to change the official language of the country from French to English. The French have blood on their hands in Rwanda.
3:53 Oh you know, just supplying the god damn crazy genocidal extremists with military equipment is all.
they primarily used machetes.
@@rowdyjohnson6026 Which they would have been unable to do unless shielded by the French-supplied fire weapons.
" if you can not comprehend the motives ,then infer observations from actions and events " Carl Gustav Jung .
22:52 shows proves that the French didn give a shit!
un-*ucking-believable on many levels. They moved out due to fear of RPF, which was not threatening the Tutsis, rather a group that could actually save the Tutsis, as RPF was Tutsi led. How he says that he values the soldiers more than Tutsis is incredible. How can you possibly discriminate between people like that. Civilians are to be protected by means of soldiers. If you need to protect the soldiers more than civilians... it's a disgrace to the idea of an army. The level of racism, lack of care for Tutsi lives on a supposedly humanitarian mission is outrageous.
this *** says... between 10 French lives and.... some, in this case 1000 Tutsis... his choice was clear.
He didn't even know the name of the tribe smh
Hutus has been killings tutsis long before independence and after.
The Tutsis had conquered n enslaved Hutus for centuries
Tutsis enslaved the Hutus in their own land for centuries and killed whoever didn't cooperate
All you saying that the tutis enslaved hutus don't know what you are talking about.
You are not even Rwandan
Its been well documented that the rpf (a tutsi political party) committed atrocities against hutus during thier time as a rebel force so no side is really innocent other than the tutsi and hutu victims who died because of racial hatred
@@godsown4683 I’m from the US when I learned about this we were taught that the Tutsis were in power and enslaved/ killed a lot of Hutus
the french have a terrible record in africa, take note that its because of the french that thomas sankara is not with us today
Africans need to sit with The French. Tell The French They need to move out of All The French colonies.
Exactly but they would end up dead. 14 African Nations still pay France for their independence that happen over 50 years ago ... Many leaders tried to stop paying and ended up dead. France claims they need to money for survival yet Africa is suffering.
...and that's why we always lose!!! Cant get a rapist off you by asking nicely.
Love yall
I feel for the UN troops that went in there, esp the Canadian commander designated to strike a peace accord 💔And that certain perpetrators are still amongst us,unpunished, is horrific!
You will be surprised to know who the real perpetrators are, do some research and dont be soo naive.
Read Mathew 24, you will understand
Shocking
undoubtedly one of the saddest episodes in the history of the French Republic. the country of rebirth, of the great thinkers of the encyclopedia, cradle of the civilization of freedom, equality and fraternity. There was no greater hypocrisy or greater betrayal of the most nuclear principles of values that a nation like the French is supposed to represent, what a shame, how much misery. when those responsible paid for so much innocent blood spilled ... you should never have let it happen but you didn't care. shame and dishonor will be with you forever.
Of course the French new the hell they started the Vietnam war oppressing people.
Shame and dishonor lies largely with the Rwandans who decided to hack each other to death!!
Now the French is losing Africa
I'm sorry, but France isn't the country of half of those things that French pride seems to think they are/were 😅
they dont give a f about their own black people (the gov) why would they care about some africans thousands of miles away.
Karma works people, sooner or later France will suffer for their actions in one way or another.
Karma doesn't exist
Haiti is still waiting
such an amzing report .. bravo france 24
Don't forget the 71's genocide in Bangladesh. Worse than this. Broke the backbone of Bangladesh. Hence, it's a poor 3rd world country today.
My question is was this this local arm made before habyarimana death or after please answer that question
Ngarukiye12 Jean Aime it was made before
So sad
Sthg dark-looking about those that killed. God have mercy on us all.
Dear all great gentle
Very sweet goodnoon and very dark human behaviour history.
Thank you very much.
Sure, but in the end it was the Hutus who slaughtered the Tutsis.
Ignorants Hutus working for really clever people with an evil plan
Sure but in the end
It was the French who supplied them as well as the UN who failed to stop it
So in the end
Everybody is at fault
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 Supplied them with machetes and wooden clubs..?
@@krazyflipy5801yup thousands of machetes were given to the Hutu government prior. Where do you think thousands of machetes were coming from
The most murder in the shortest amount of time. Pain and suffering
Kagame has never been president since 1994
He have been a killer
Kagame was still president and in control. The president btn 1994 to 2000 was just a shadow
@@turyhumphrey7767 He was not.
Who supplied Tutsi rebels with ammunition, I mean, who supplied Uganda with weapons?!
History always repeats itself. We just have to watch this space.
Yep. karma!
Those who participated in the genocide, mixed in with the other Hutus who ran to the refugee camps in Zaire(Congo). There they fattened up off International aid/relief. The world literally feed and clothed these killers after the genocide; How Ironic.
Looks like such a beautiful country????
Very beautiful
It is.
It is, very much
The Tutsi people are so beautiful and forgiving they need to educate the French
Such a shame
Excellent work!🤔🙁
Horrible but necessary to know.
Kagame is not president of Rwanda since 1994.. and the french role in genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda, is big and French have to ask for forgiveness, you awe apologies to survivors
Catholic Church should be held accountable for rwanda genocide french Belgium ICC we want to this happening ...
if only africa wasent colonised if onlyyyyyy. i cant imagine how it would have been.?
Tribalwars probably, since there was a pre-colonial tensions between the groups, even if they got worsen by belgs. You think africans would be exeptional to mankind, that they dont engage in conflict unless the white man say so?
Notice everyman in power passes the buck no one is ever going to take responsibility for it
Shame shame shame on you french fries government
France, Belgium or even the American State should be tried by the International Court of Justice
.. at that time, though I didn't understand quite what was happening, I was ashamed/anxious that my Govt, (America) could not stop it...
Hon. Narcish McTattletale , no, I don't mean to bash my country.., just one person trying to understand what was happening... no way could I understand how to stop it, even in hindsight...
Bring us a little closer to now, I don't see any quick answers to Bandgazi either... U.S. Made some quick calculations, guessed wrong, and things got crazy fast...
All western wanted to kill all African because of their own interests till today tomorrow we African have to wake up African people don't even let white supremacists confused people to kill own people in the name of christianity tribal or politics matter 🙄
No oil or minerals why would the USA bothers.
*1994* *05* *12E* Rwanda Document Project
You will understand if you google that rwanda project source I just l left you
Diversity is our strength.
It is
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇿🇦
why are this killers still free? they should be in jail and rot!
Unbelievable french igvt for supplying arms
Please it’s the genocide against tutsi
Don’t forget that France also tried to stop rpf,that was fighting genocide perpetrators
Bosnia , Sri lanka ..90s was the decade of the Genocide
No, it's not Rwandan Genocide please Correct your Title on this matter Actually It's "Genocide Against Tutsi"! This is the correct term, and it's very essential when telling history to be very accurate about that history.
I don’t think they care
What happened in Rwanda has overriding similarities with Myanmar's or Burmese government still currently plagued with instabilities.
I take issue with so many commenters blaming "the French", instead of the French government. The French are people, like you and like me. To paint the whole nation as to blame is where resentment for a certain nationality comes from. Think about how ironic that is, considering the subject matter!! If you don't see how ridiculous that is, you're beyond help. Language is powerful.
And when they say “The French” they are talking about the French government
No historical or reporter would blame an entire ethnicity for not taking part in stopping a massacre
It was “The French” as in the French government
And reading and using logic is important
@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 I'm fully aware of what the meaning is, as, I would guess, are many others. Still, accuracy matters.
Frankly, its lazy reporting to refer to the bad actors in this scenario by referring to them as The French.
how did they know who was who it was easy to blend it no?
France always typecasting itself: being an arsonist playing a firefighter.
High command of france looks truly depraved and homicidal...
The French did it....shame.
I think even God we not forgive you, because what you did with France Amry is terrible
This video illustrates why all adults who are not wards of the state should obtain maintain and be proficient with a military grade firearm. It's not possible to genocide an armed and prepared population.
Genocide is never possible without the involvement of the state in one form or the other.
Without state assets participating, at worst it woukd be an ethnic clash or ethnic riots.
Rwanda, Bosnia Herzegovinia, Jaffna Sri Lanka, the Ukrainian pogroms, or the most infamous of it all, the final solution.
When you have state paramilitary forces involved, military grade firearms could just as well be farming tools as one cannot expect civilians to procure and maintain armour, field communication equipment and in some cases air support. A rifle without the rest isnt of much use defense wise.
@@theallseeingeye9388 you don't need comms or an air force to protect your home. You need a dependable firearm, plenty of ammo and basic marksmanship fundamentals. When almost every home is prepared it's nearly impossible to invade or genocide and as a bonus police tend to behave a lot better.
That's true except when everyone is heavily armed they'll just genocide themselves on a much slower timeline
Thanks to the white man
Africa should be United, that is the only way forward. Otherwise, we will be dancing around the circle for eternity.
You can’t feel how much Rwandans hate France due to their intervention in rwandan genocide against #tutsi they were able to stop it all but they helped the #hutu to finish all #tutsi but they can’t tell whole story
Kagame has been President since 2000 and not 1994 sir.
No. Pierre Bizinmungu was the President from 1994 to 2000.
Don't blame France.
1 african tribe massacres another, ppl in the comments: France France France, French government, France France,French, France, France
i can hear them talking about only 2 ethnic groups
Why did France apologies this year 2021 April through Macro for assisting Hutu militia interahamwe to kill Tutsis?with photographic evidence of french army training interahamwe Hutu militias.
Who should see these colonialists as humans if they could not stop the genocide?
Wait so the people who can't stop a genocide aren't human? That's insane. Most people can't stop other people from doing terrible things. Wouldn't it be more accurate to question the humanity of those who committed the genocide?
So France started, a war, then left, later came back in the name of humanterian mission to stop it
ombi yangu ufarasa ilimbe vidiya kumbuwa kwa kila familia ya ruwanda wenye walikufa watutsi ama wahutu familia yoyote watu wawo walikufaa walimbuwe
I've heard testimony from survivors and officials that say the Hutu's were preparing for an invasion by the RPF, which had been assembling on the boarder with ,Congo/Uganda. Once the plane went down, the preparation for war was unleashed, something both the extremist Hutu's and Paul Kagame of the RPF knew would be the case. It seems that the Hutu's knew they were going to be defeated by the USA/Britain connected and trained Paul Kagame's RPF, and simply spazzed out. There is also conjecture about the breakdown of who killed who: some evidence shows that about 1/3 of those killed were killed by the Hutu massacre's, but that the other 2/3 of the dead were Hutus killed by the Kagame lead RPF when they entered the country. Kagame rejects that analysis, change the official language of the country from french to english, condemn the French report putting forth their evidence, and jails anybody in Rwanda that dares confirm details of that story. If this was a Motion for Summary Judgement to Dismiss the complaint, I would have to say Motion to Dismiss is Denied. The Plaintiffs have stated a probable Cause of Action. They have a right to present their case!
You'll understand over all these lies the truth is both Killed each other actually hutu's fled to nearby countries. And also those who fled to congo 🇨🇩 they was followed by RPF which Paull kagame continued to kill 15 million Congolese in name of Hutu.