Saturday, November 25, 2006

Really pushing their luck

The French have their own version of Spain's Baltasar Garzón, judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, the man that brought Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) to justice, and also it seems, a pot that likes to call the kettle black.

This week he caused a breakdown in his country's relations with Rwanda by suggesting that President Kagame of Rwanda should face trial for the shooting-down on April 6, 1994, of a French plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and a crew of seven French nationals. Charles Murigande, the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister, responded thus: “We have ordered the French Ambassador to leave our country within 24 hours and given other French diplomats 72 hours to leave the country.”

Given that it is increasingly clear that the then French President François Mitterrand and his government played a significant role in aiding and abetting the genocide which immediately followed Habyarimana's demise, judge Bruguière would be best advised to ferme la bouche.

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