RWANDA BROUGHT AN ACTION AGAINST FRANCE
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2007 19:22 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Rwanda brought an action against Franc in the UN
International Court, accusing France of violating the international
law, Associated Press agency reports. As a cause served judge Jean-Lui
Bruegger’s actions, who in 2006 issued warranties for arresting 9
Rwandan politicians close to President Pol Kagame. Judge Jean-Lui
Bruegger accused them of participating in country’s former President
Juvenal Habyarimana’s assassination.
Bruegger also turned to the UN International Court demanding to bring
an action against Pol Kagame himself and bring him under trial in
the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Rwandan officials think that by doing that the French side has
encroached on Rwandan sovereignty. In his application to the Court
Rwanda mentions that France has violated international commitments
on not interfering in domestic matters of other countries.
Earlier Rwanda has tensioned its diplomatic relations with France,
which had to recall his Ambassador to Rwanda in 2006. Besides,
President Kagame blamed French politicians, particularly Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin, stating that they indulged the Rwandan genocide
themselves, trying to accuse of committing the genocide the current
Rwandan authorities.
Right after the assassination of Rwanda’s former President Juvenal
Habyarimana, on April 6, 1994 mass ethnic conflicts took place between
hutu and tutsi tribes.
Radical armed hutus killed more than 500 000 people, tutsi in
general. Totally 800 000 people died in ethnic cleansing. Juvenal
Habyarimana died in mysterious conditions, when his plane was
fired near Rwandan capital Kigali. France’s participation in the
investigation is explained by the fact that pilots of the plane were
French citizens.