Two Canadian courts on Monday rejected an appeal for a stay of deportation from Leon Mugesera, accused of delivering a speech that helped incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which radical ethnic Hutus killed as many as 800,000 Tutsis.
A French probe says Rwandan President Paul Kagame was not behind the assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide. The shot that downed then-president Habyarimana's plane apparently came from his own side. In Nigeria, a strike over rising fuel prices paralyses the country, already reeling from religious violence. And a tourist miraculously survives after her bungee cord snaps in Zimbabwe.
As a new probe reverses an earlier French investigation on the event that sparked the Rwandan genocide and shifts the focus from Tutsi rebels to Hutu extremists, François Picard’s panel argues over whether in the past, there’s been a cover-up.
As a new probe reverses an earlier French investigation on the event that sparked the Rwandan genocide, shifting the focus from Tutsi rebels to Hutu extremists, François Picard’s panel argues over whether, in the past, there has been a cover-up.
A new French inquiry into the assassination of former Rwandan President Habyarimana, which triggered the Rwandan genocide in 1994, could improve relations between France and Rwanda. President Kagame is no longer thought to have orchestrated the assassination, as was previously determined by a heavily-criticised probe conducted by France several years ago, and which led to Rwanda breaking off diplomatic relations.
The change in course of a French investigation into the killing of former Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 could clear Rwanda's current leaders of any responsibility and help thaw frosty relations between Paris and Kigali.
The papers today look at a French judicial investigation into the Rwandan genocide, as well as one of the issues in the current presidential campaign - tax breaks for families. And there's a report that judges want to check Sarkozy's campaign accounts for 2007. That's the focus for this Wednesday, 11th January 2012.
Rwanda on Tuesday hailed a French report into the 1994 plane crash that killed former leader Juvenal Habyarimana as a vindication for President Paul Kagame (pictured), claiming the downing of the plane was "a coup d'état" by extremist Hutus.
Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana arrived in Paris on Friday after his release by the International Criminal Court (ICC), where judges have dropped war crimes charges against him on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
The UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has delivered life sentences to two former heads of the ruling Hutu-led MRND party. Mathieu Ngirumpatse and Edouard Karemera served as the party's president and vice president during the 1994 Tutsi massacre.
