Six Rwandan citizens have filed a lawsuit in France accusing French soldiers of complicity in genocide.And they were there on behalf of the super-benevolent, all-knowing United Nations.
The Paris army tribunal - the only court that can try French troops for crimes committed abroad - will decide whether to take up the complaint.
The suit was filed against unnamed defendants by lawyers of the six, who survived the 1994 massacres.
Some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus, died during the Rwandan genocide.
According to the plaintiffs - five men and one woman - French troops allowed Rwandan troops and Hutu extremists to enter camps where Tutsis had sought refuge.
Mark's Remarks
Yes, the benevolent UN. The same UN, whose envoy to Rwanda, Koffi Annan, decided there would be on military action or interference by "peacekeepers" and allowed the genocide to continue. The Tutsis need to sue the UN and Koffi Annan. Annan, in his administrative role, could have done something. However, he chose to allow genocide to happen. More evidence of the shameful record of the United Nations.
