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New rape allegations against French troops during Rwandan genocide |
2006-12-14 |
![]() More female survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide have accused French troops of raping them, in allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers that France had in the country at the time. Testifying Thursday before a Rwandan government-appointed panel probing alleged French complicity in the mass killings, two women told in detail how they been violated at the ages of 12 and 14 respectively. Both witnesses were granted anonymity by the inquiry commission, which was forced to briefly suspend its fourth day of a second round of public hearings when one member collapsed in tears during the testimony of the then 14-year-old. The woman, a member of Rwanda's Tutsi minority that made up the vast majority of the some 800,000 victims of the genocide, claimed she had been handed over to a French soldier by extremist Hutu militia in southwest Rwanda. |
Posted by:anonymous5089 |
#2 But....But....But......France is John F'n Kerrey's ally of choice. |
Posted by: USMC6743 2006-12-14 19:26 |
#1 I followed this extremely closely as I could while it was happening and since and France was definitely involved at some level with the genocide. |
Posted by: Brett 2006-12-14 14:47 |