Juvenal Habyarimana (original) (raw)

[The airplane carrying Rwandan president Juv�nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda.]

[2008] The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup" by Prof. Peter Erlinder recently issued French and Spanish international "war-crimes" warrants and new evidence at the UN Rwanda Tribunal have exposed Kagame as the war-criminal who actually touched-off the 1994 "Rwanda Genocide" by assassinating the previous President and who is benefiting from a decades-long U.S.-sponsored "cover-up" of Pentagon complicity in massacres committed by Kagame's regime, which even Britain's Economist has called "the most repressive in Africa."

Quotes In fact, it is known that Museveni�s half-brother, Salim Saleh, was at the final RPF meeting in Mulindi where the date for the shoot-down was set. The attack on the plane killed the Rwandan president, Juv�nal Habyarimana, a Hutu, the Burundian president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, a Hutu, the Rwandan Army chief of staff, Deogratias Nsabimana, a Hutu, and everyone else on-board.
It was the first massacre of 1994, and it was a massacre of Hutus by the RPF. The RPF then immediately launched attacks across Kigali and throughout the north of the country. In the sector of Kigali known as Remera, they killed everyone living there on the night of the 6th/7th, wiped out the Gendarme camp there, wiped out the military police camp at Kami, and launched a major attack against Camp Kanombe, Camp Kigali and the main Gendarme camp at Kacyiru. They slaughtered everyone in their path.[2010] THE TRUTH ABOUT RWANDA by Christopher Black

As we have already suggested, the established perpetrator-victim line requires suppression of the crucial fact that the April 6 shooting-down of the government jet returning Rwanda President Juv�nal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprian Ntaryamira to Kigali, that killed everyone onboard, was carried out by RPF commandos (as discussed below), and had been regarded by RPF planners as an essential first strike in its final assault on the government. Although the mass killings followed this assassination, with the RPF rapidly defeating any military resistance by the successor to Habyarimana�s coalition government and establishing its rule in Rwanda, these prime g�nocidaires were, and still are today, portrayed as heroic defenders of Rwanda�s national unity against Hutu �extremists� and the Interahamwe militia, who were the RPF�s actual victims.
.......We also know a lot more about �who assassinated Habyarimana.� In one of the most important, and also suppressed, stories about �The Genocide,� formerICTR investigator Michael Hourigan developed evidence as far back as 1996-1997, based on the testimony of three RPF informants who claimed �direct involvement in the 1994 fatal rocket attack upon the President�s aircraft,� and �specifically implicated the direct involvement of [Kagame]� and other members of the RPF. But in early 1997, when Hourigan hand-delivered his evidence to the ICTR�s chief prosecutor Louise Arbour, the latter was �aggressive� and �hostile,� Hourigan recounts in a 2006 affidavit, and advised him that the �investigation was at an end because in her view it was not in [the ICTR�s] mandate.� This decision, which �astounded� Hourigan, was rejected by former ICTR chief prosecutor Richard Goldstone, who told a Danish newspaper that the assassination was �clearly related to the genocide,� as it was the �trigger that started the genocide.�
Suppressing evidence of the assassination�s perpetrator has been crucial in the West, as it seems awkward that the �trigger� for �The Genocide� was ultimately pulled, not by the officially designated Hutu villains, but by the Tutsi victors in this conflict, the RPF, long-supported by the United States and by its close allies (who very possibly aided the assassins in the shoot-down). It has also been important to suppress the fact that the first Hutu president of Burundi, Melchior Ndadaye, had been assassinated by Tutsi officers in his army in October 1993, an action celebrated by the RPF and arousing fears among Rwanda�s Hutu.
A far more comprehensive eight-year investigation by the French magistrate Jean-Louis Brugui�re, who had been asked to rule on the deaths of the three French nationals operating the government jet that was shot down in April 1994, concluded that the assassination followed from Kagame�s rejection of the Arusha power-sharing accords of August 1993, and that for Kagame, the �physical elimination� of Habyarimana was therefore essential to achieving the goal of an RPF-takeover in Rwanda.32Brugui�re issued nine arrest warrants for high-ranking RPF members close to Kagame, and requested that the ICTR itself take up Kagame�s prosecution, as under French law, Brugui�re could not issue an arrest warrant for a head of state.
As best we can tell, the existence of Hourigan�s evidence has been reported only once in two U.S. newspapers (the _Los Angeles Times_and Seattle Times), and never in the New York Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal; Brugui�re�s findings were mentioned in several U.S. newspapers (sixteen that we have found), including three short items in the Washington Post, a major report in the Los Angeles Times (reprinted in the Seattle Times), and one blurb apiece in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, which totaled ninety-four words. Interestingly, the U.S. media have reported fairly often on Brugui�re�s work as a �counterterrorism� specialist in France, including several dozen items in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. But when we checked the U.S. media for Brugui�re�s eight-year inquiry into mass killings in Rwanda�a case where his focus was on a U.S. client-agent as the primary villain�their interest declines to almost zero. The propaganda system works. [2009] Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson