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2006-06-01 Africa Subsaharan

Rwandan president scoffs at "Hotel Rwanda"

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Posted by ryuge 2006-06-01 11:42|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sheesh. Who to believe: Hollywood or the Rwandan gubmint.

Can we get a third opinion?

Posted by SLO Jim 2006-06-01 14:12|| 2006-06-01 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Rwandan president scoffs at "Hotel Rwanda" ..... as he skillfully hones the edge of his ivory handled Chinese machette.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-01 16:01|| 2006-06-01 16:01|| Front Page Top

#3 He didn't carry a machete; he's a Tutsi and was the rebel commander.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-06-01 18:13|| 2006-06-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Paul Kagame received training in tactics from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College(Fort Leavenworth, Kansas).

"U.S. officials were deeply relieved that the rebels had halted the massacres, thus ending pressure for a U.S.-led intervention. They also said they were greatly impressed by Kagame's leadership. By the end of the war, some U.S. officials had concluded that Kagame was "a brilliant commander, able to think outside the box," as one put it. "He was a fairly impressive guy," added the official, who met Kagame in the early 1990s. "He was more than a military man. He was politically attuned and knew what compromise was.""

"As he watched from his camps along the Biumba road, this was the chessboard upon which Kagame had to focus all his strategic faculties: French armor in Hutu hands, French heavy weapons, a Hutu military for which France and Belgium had successfully bought time for a huge buildup-Hutu airborne troops and 30,000 regulars, all trained by the French. Against this, he had no armor and no heavy weapons, just mortars and rocket-propelled grenades that Uganda had to pretend it didn't supply."

Posted by john 2006-06-01 18:54|| 2006-06-01 18:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Just prior to or in the early days of the massacre, France "forgot" to cancel an arms shipment to Rwanda. Also, in the early days, French troops were guarding the then-Rwandan leadership.

Some how that made it to U.S. National Public Radio. It also just as promptly disappeared.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-06-01 19:01|| 2006-06-01 19:01|| Front Page Top

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