Kagame says French PM backed genocide
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was among French officials whom he accuses of supporting the 1994 genocide.Comment
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PARIS -- Rwanda severed diplomatic ties with France yesterday in response to a French judge's decision to issue international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame suggested that Rwandan troops might already be back in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to deal with Hutu extremists who fled there after the 1994 genocide.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Rwandan President Paul Kagame have discussed how to reconcile the people of the landlocked African state still scarred by the 1994 genocide, a spokesman said.
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Rwanda will attack rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) if little is done to disarmthem, President Paul Kagame said here Saturday upon his return from Burkina Faso.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accused France on Monday of backing his rebel opponents and compared its military behaviour in his country to the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to Paris after a French judge issued international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president, the embassy said Friday.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame issued a blistering attack against a French judge who called for his prosecution over alleged complicity in the death of the country's former leader, the incident that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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French troops deployed in Rwanda at the height of the country's 1994 genocide lured thousands of minority Tutsis from their hideouts to be killed by extremist militia, a witness has told an enquiry.
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Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to France and said it might break off diplomatic ties after a French judge said the Rwandan president and nine aides should be prosecuted over the death of his predecessor, the event that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accuses France of supporting rebels in the country's renewed civil war.
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Paris - Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday he believed reports were true that French troops had decapitated local demonstrators during anti-French riots in the West African state this month.
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Senior Congolese officials charged Tuesday that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had made good on his threat to invade, claiming Rwandan troops had crossed into eastern Congo and were clashing with militias there.
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Protesting at what they insist is France's role in their nation's genocide, Rwandans from all walks of life have united in fury at calls last week by a French judge for their President Paul Kagame to be arrested.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday repeated accusations that France was implicated in his country's 1994 genocide in a television interview one day after Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with its former ally.
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Burundi weighed into neighboring Rwanda's row with France on Thursday, saying it backed Kigali's decision to sever diplomatic ties with Paris.
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After a week that saw strained ties between Rwanda and France snap over an indictment call on President Paul Kagame over alleged complicity in the death of his predecessor, local media rallied in support of the government and poured scorn on Paris.