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To: goldsnow who wrote (2375)	7/16/2001 5:31:39 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Who killed Rwanda? Media hype about tribalism in Rwanda hides the West's responsibility for the violence, argues Sabine Reul from the German magazine Novo Rwanda has become a metaphor for tribal bloodletting thanks to media coverage of the conflict there. Since the assassination in April of the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, the carnage and the corpses have never been out of the news. As far as most people watching TV are concerned, ancient tribal hatreds among Rwanda's minority Tutsi and majority Hutu peoples are to blame for the orgy of killing. A modern conflict Habyarimana's plane was shot down over Kigali airport. Immediately after the killing, rebel troops from the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) moved out of the parliamentary compound near the airport and attacked the presidential guard. At this point, the Rwandan war, which had been simmering since the RPF invaded the northern border region from neighbouring Uganda in 1990, exploded into a life-and-death struggle between the government and the rebels. After two months of massacres, the United Nationssecurity council authorised the despatch of a 5500-strong peacekeeping force to Rwanda. The fact that the UN had played a big role in precipitating the violence there was ignored by a media obsessed with the gruesome details of the carnage. The RPF was installed in Kigali by the UN as part of a plan to put pressure on Habyarimana to include the rebels in an interim government. Belgian troops belonging to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda sub-let their quarters to RPF troops and trained them. The Belgians controlled the airport in Kigali and the area around the presidential palace. It is unlikely that the rocket-launchers which fired the missiles that shot down the president's plane could have been used without the connivance or at least the knowledge of the Belgian UN contingent. Belgian troops also stood by when RPF forces attacked the presidential guard. [snip] informinc.co.uk Lumumba, Ruanda, Kabila,... who's next??