The French judiciary have been investigating the complicated incident which sparked the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Seventeen years have passed since the horrific incident where over 800,000 Rwandans were murdered and the French have finally come up with another late and false standing.

Particulars of the report, which will be made public later this week, are still insufficient to reach any formal conclusion.  The two French judges who have been investigating the sensitive and veiled incident since the retirement of Judge Bruguiere and have officially finalised their findings.

The contents of the report are so crucial given that the judges will officially prosecute perpetrators of the assassination and issue public arrest warrants. The reports states that therefore, because the missiles reportedly came from the Kanombe Barracks in Kigali and none of the RPA soldiers were based there, then the RPF could not have been involved. Yet, who used the missiles that were bought by the Uganda Defence Force’s from the Soviet Union?

Kagame’s former Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa shook the world late last year when he revealed President Kagame, who was then the RPF leader, made the order to have the plane fired upon with the intention of murdering President Habyarimana. The evidence obtained by the French, without consulting an important person like Dr. Rudasingwa who was the right hand man for Kagame, should then have been from Habyarimana himself. But, because of the regional financial interests of the French and other key International players the outcome may be misleading these investigations.

Dr. Rudasingwa said President Kagame, on several occasions, told him how he blew up the plane carrying for President Habyarimana, his Burundian counterpart President Cyprien Ntaryamira and the seven member staff as well as the French crew.

Kagame denies all of these the allegations. At the same time when President Kagame was speaking to the BBC 24 he stated that he does not care about Habyarimana’s death, he specifically replied to the BBC, “what if I did kill him!” In his words President Kagame stated that what if he was the one who had died, would anyone be asking about his death?

In September 2010 the investigating judges visited Rwanda where they brought experts to reconstruct the events that led to the shooting of the plane.

The judges intended to publish the report in March 2011 but were compelled to postpone to June 2011, fearing the publication would coincide with the sensitive month of April in Rwanda. In the month of April we remember our loved ones who were killed during that horrific time.

Do the French care so much that they did not want our people to feel more pain?

Were the French not present in April 1994 watching people being slaughtered?

The Judges further faced a serious diplomatic challenge in June 2011 considering that Kagame was planning a visit to France.  But, what has Kagame’s visit have to do with the investigations? Was he the one to brief the investigators on what to conclude within the final report? Why did it take so long after Kagame’s departure to finalize and publish the final reports?

The Habyarimana case led to the severing of ties between Rwanda and France. Kigali accused French soldiers of raping Rwandese women during a humanitarian operation in 1994. France has been investigating the assassination because the pilots of the ill-fated plane were French.

The death of President Juvenal Habyarimana accelerated the brutal killings in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide that President Kagame is the master mine behind.

The French should be humiliated by the decisions made from the beginning when they decided to stand aside and support the killers when vulnerable people needed help.

They are now doing a very same thing by fabricating the investigations in order to meet their needs and protect their financial interest in the region.

Rwema Francis

Kigali.