Today, French judges, Marc Trevedic and Natalie Poux, disclosed
a first technical Report by ballistic experts to the parties in the probe
related to the downing of the April1994 presidential plane that killed
President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of
Burundi, members of their delegations and the French crew. The same time, the
government of Rwanda removed the embargo on its ready-made press release
celebrating “victory”. The same evening some medias echoed the version of Lawyer
Bernard Maingain, who represents President Paul Kagame's entourage who were
under investigation, saying that the findings "put an end to more than 16
years of manipulation and lies." This is a well prepared media campaign
aiming to fool national and international opinion in order to polish the
dictator's version.
The technical report by ballistic experts has investigated 6
possible launching sites according to the information surveyed in Kigali during
their investigations. The question of where the ground-to-air missile was fired
is a key to establishing the credibility of different accounts of the terrorist
attack. Curiously, the Rwandan government has just picked up one possible
launching spot as the one and only one to be considered. This is what the
regime is selling to international media in order to avoid other aspects
pointing at the real masterminder of the attack.
Considering the level of infiltrations and deployments of
operatives in Kigali city and its surroundings by the then rebellion, we have
no single doubts that RPF was in a position to mount such an operation in most
of the six suspected firing spots.
This first technical report does not change anything from the
truth. Our respective organisations are committed to identify very credible
witnesses ready to provide details and facts of the operation and the
operatives under orders of the then rebel military overall commander.
In the past, there have been several rival accounts of this
terrorist attack and only an international inquiry composed by experts from
different countries will pave the way to justice denied.
This white-washing media campaign launched by Kigali regime
pointing the finger at its eternal enemies, Hutu extremists, is trying to
distract the international community from the real problems of the country on
the brink. The current leadership has been accused by the United Nations report
of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights
and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003. There is no
political space in Rwanda and freedoms are massively violated. Most
partners of Rwanda have voiced out their concerns over continuous violations of
human rights, the plight of political prisoners, assassinations of opposition
leaders and journalists inside and outside the country, life attempts against
exiled opposition leaders.
We encourage the French justice to continue its investigations
and call for an international inquiry in this terrorist attack.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Nkiko
Nsengimana
Co-ordinator,
FDU-Inkingi Co-ordination
Committee
Contact: nkiko.nsengimana@bluewin.ch or sixchris@netti.fi
Washington D.C., USA
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Co-ordinator
RNC Interim Committee
Contact: ngombwa@gmail.com
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