"Massacres on an ethnic basis were going on and we have evidence that France knew this from at least January 1993. The French military executed the orders of French politicians. The motivation was an obsession with the idea of an Anglo-Saxon plot to oust France from the region." Full Story »
Posted by David Starr
All sources are named, which is nice. Declassified French documents are made reference to, and readers are pointed where to go for further investigation. The larger point--that the French foreign policy at the time of the Rwandan genocide was concerned with rising Anglo-Saxon rather than genocide--is well taken. It is also relevant to today's events, as much ink has been spilled over European objections to our foreign policy, with the assumption made in many cases that the critiques are based on humanitarian concerns. That is a dubious assumption, and stories like this make it apparent why that is so.
