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Le FPR estime que les Français protègent les responsables de l'ancien pouvoir et leurs soldats
Card Number 36524
Number
36524
Author
Leclerc, Gilles
Author
Peaster, Philippe
Date
18 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940718
Time
19:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 19 heures
Title
Le FPR estime que les Français protègent les responsables de l'ancien pouvoir et leurs soldats
Subtitle
Réponse de la France : "Nous remettrons les responsables à la justice internationale".
Size
20552 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- Scenes of panic at the Zaire-Rwanda border: following mortar fire on Sunday evening [July 17], which killed at least 120 Rwandan refugees, French soldiers and humanitarian organizations are now attempting to evacuate the wounded. Meanwhile, on the ground, humanitarian agencies are beginning to state that they are "unable to cope with the scale of the disaster" unfolding in Goma.
- The RPF claims tonight to control the entire country, with the exception of the security zone, an area the French army will continue to protect.
- She is searching for a relative, perhaps her child, amidst the heap of bodies. It was 4 p.m. yesterday [July 17] when several shells struck the airport in central Goma and the area near the border crossing.
- Goma has been overwhelmed by an influx of refugees for the past week, numbering over a million today. The result: in addition to those killed directly by shrapnel, dozens more have died in the ensuing panic, with children and the elderly suffocated or trampled by the crowd. The death toll stands at around one hundred this morning.
- The civilian airport has been closed and the humanitarian airlift suspended, a move bound to worsen an already catastrophic health and food situation.
- The fire originated in eastern Rwanda, and France holds the RPF responsible. François Rutayisire, the RPF representative in France, stated: "The RPF is not responsible for this shelling of Goma. It is elements of the Rwandan Armed Forces who are trying to trigger a general conflagration, to set off a chain reaction".
- At the same time, Paris has once again warned the RPF against any infiltration into the zone in Rwanda currently under French protection. This follows two skirmishes last weekend.
- The point of contention: the presence of officials from the former regime and their soldiers in this zone. The RPF believes the French are protecting them. France's response: "We disarm soldiers when they enter our zone, and we will hand the officials over to international justice".
- The RPF claims tonight to control the entire country, with the exception of the security zone, an area the French army will continue to protect.
- She is searching for a relative, perhaps her child, amidst the heap of bodies. It was 4 p.m. yesterday [July 17] when several shells struck the airport in central Goma and the area near the border crossing.
- Goma has been overwhelmed by an influx of refugees for the past week, numbering over a million today. The result: in addition to those killed directly by shrapnel, dozens more have died in the ensuing panic, with children and the elderly suffocated or trampled by the crowd. The death toll stands at around one hundred this morning.
- The civilian airport has been closed and the humanitarian airlift suspended, a move bound to worsen an already catastrophic health and food situation.
- The fire originated in eastern Rwanda, and France holds the RPF responsible. François Rutayisire, the RPF representative in France, stated: "The RPF is not responsible for this shelling of Goma. It is elements of the Rwandan Armed Forces who are trying to trigger a general conflagration, to set off a chain reaction".
- At the same time, Paris has once again warned the RPF against any infiltration into the zone in Rwanda currently under French protection. This follows two skirmishes last weekend.
- The point of contention: the presence of officials from the former regime and their soldiers in this zone. The RPF believes the French are protecting them. France's response: "We disarm soldiers when they enter our zone, and we will hand the officials over to international justice".