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oh. i'm on the shot. a. northerner wanda july fourth twenty fifth. in july nine hundred ninety four troops up there one patriotic front or in could tony seize the capital kigali and put an end to the mass slaughter of the tutsi population. it was the final genocide of the twentieth century. zero one patriotic front is a political and military movement founded in one nine hundred eighty seven.
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the focus now on me has led the r.p.s. since the early one nine hundred ninety s. and has been want as president since two thousand and three. the was in our culture. medium we make a distinction between what is good and what is evil was i have a general put on that no one needs to explain back to us how would a candidate who we don't need anyone to show us the path to dignity we have actually to we know what to do. for that what i would people were killed for that. normally no one has the right to condemn us. over just one hundred days between april and july one thousand nine hundred ninety four
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one of history's most notorious killing machines tore through aranda a million tutsis were exterminated often with the active support of the local population. in the in kentucky are at the heart of this complex story of unparalleled violence. that story deserves to be told in full through interviews with some of the major participants. you know. you're all. in. different teams and came along. and meets it is look chris. and. where one hundred. one.
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is sort of thing of both. the us. to see chief among those as chiefs. so what they knew was. that it is just to the. our story begins in the one nine hundred fifty s. at that time rwanda was still governed by belgium. rwanda is one of the smallest countries in africa and is the most densely populated. it's sometimes called the land of a thousand hills. the country's main crops are t.v. and coffee. three population groups share the same land language and guards the majority hutu who are farmers the took see who raised cattle and the twelve who
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were hunter gatherers. belgium decided that all three were ethnic groups and through its support behind the scene but with the rise of the african independence movement in the one nine hundred fifty s. the tutsi demanded an end to belgium's rule. the belgians supported by the vatican and the white fathers group of catholic missionaries responded by. building up the political and social strength of the hutu. this was to have immediate and tragic consequences in one nine hundred fifty nine to two launched a violent wave of attacks on the tutsi minority calling it a social revolution. after rwanda gained its independence in one nine hundred sixty two greg munda a young hutu was sworn in as president an estimated twenty thousand two teams had been killed in the conflict and one hundred fifty thousand others fled to
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neighboring countries. some went to the us to. so my family went to. that's where we stayed. for a couple of. years. so we grew up with three. comps shifting from one place to another. going to winter if she. had been militants fighting. the government klunder older than me. and we used to hear their stories. with a good. talk two hundred couple of times of
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course right from. the ground aside from the wounds from the stories over what is twenty years. this person is just a tool that still to be these terrorists are based outside the country that ten twenty or forty of them cross the border at night. but i believe that it will be absolutely impossible for them to overthrow the regime. that did are you to say yes that's what will happen now. to me i'll be put in prison or killed i'm concerned about it i'm sure afraid everyone dies. and then did most to the g. . in time to fight. most of the time so cool creator.
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of course. but for. what do you think of the terrorists he says. simply it's just a few hot heads because they recruit young people. most of them are bandits. and the bond. fund was president for ten years during that time those tutsi who remained in rwanda suffered widespread repression. many were deported to the bogus era swamps. in one nine hundred seventy three juvenile hubby gary money from the country's north overthrew kayu bundles regime and. the massacres of tutsis came to an end but they were still subjected to discrimination. the tutsis regrouped in neighboring countries particularly in uganda where many rwandans lived in exile at first their struggle was cultural. and then expanded to include
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a political and military agenda. in the early one nine hundred eighty s. they took the exiles one support from the leader of uganda's national resistance movement you're wearing was seventy. the truth this movement is a nationalist organization. is a national. in the sense that is fighting for the end of the whole country and not for any of its section of the country they just don't buy them sort of yes well they were pretty open open to commit the us. also if you look for is it to know who with these and with you going to go there the same people. as if you the is the if these are ronnie joined i mean you've got to know this one is. these who are part of the teach the desperate to. draw one to the seas made up one
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third of these forces one of the top commanders was fred really game. another was paul kagame me who specialized in intelligence operations do. when was seven he was sworn in as uganda's president in one thousand nine hundred six he appointed both men to senior posts. through a game or became deputy minister of defense and took over as head of intelligence. did rwandan president juvenile hobby area man a suspect that during this parade he was watching those who would bring down his government just a few years later. to six most of us have already been part of the. new. skiers.
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we learned a lot growing. and maturing. but it. so we tried to bring everybody together. he fuck us. the name of the under his bullshit crowd. the rwandan patriotic front to our p.f. was created in one nine hundred eighty seven it was supported by tutsi exiles and some hutu government opponents like future r.p.s. chairman alexis kenya ringway the organization built up a military force led by frederick game. meanwhile tensions were rising in uganda. the military and at least part of the civilian population became increasingly upset about the presence of large numbers of rwanda into the seas.
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or ability. even hostile must be tidy before the last were to. run deeper than the been treated as they came over as well because you know you're always being a downer so i mean despite disgruntled of us why we should be. president was seventy responded to the discontent by ordering a census of tutsi exiles in uganda. deputy defense minister frederick gamers saw this as a threat to the tutsis and decided it was time for them to return home. i kept adding to the german. police. fourteen new ground under one. but two fold you called without support of the position. it was going to move to do but of course i would support you. i don't want you to
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did she didn't come but here. there was this mood. within that one. that one is within the another. that would have different to talk and wonder. if it was so we could have decided. we move this is going on so it's just. uniforms a gun is the sort of thing up to the border. it's wonder when we cross the border that we don't move on live in the military keeps the military ranks but stayed with a uniform. or not and. well yeah oh i'm sure it would not know my
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girl i've known i've. never yet and don't you know i won't mo yeah i know i know i will leave you alone why you're here striking the board. on the first of october it was good it was. forces fluids. down in the morning before we'd have to go to tom we were under surprised to see that in the midst to fit us with these united. major general with your mom. it took at their lived i'm just minutes after i was he was standing on an exposed and he opened. in front of the enemy david through. the enormous short of random bullets and you'll see on the floor he's done.
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that's the official version. but other reports say he was killed by a deputy commander in an argument over military tactics. for the time being really game as death was kept secret so as not to demoralize the troops or to encourage the enemy. but only. we knew that some of the soldiers had fought for the liberation of uganda . we knew that they had experience in conventional warfare and guerrilla tactics so this on october first one thousand nine hundred ninety one we got the order to attack. my comrades who were my age were afraid because we had no experience in battle. there was
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a degree of what if the troops were tactics then mixed with the civilian population of the enemy forces attacked the capital so the next day we decided to stage a raid in the area around if you got it. in the rwandan capital ten thousand two teams were detained. president hubby yari munna appealed for help from friendly states like say year and especially france were ties between kigali and paris had been closed since the one nine hundred eighty s. were president francois mitterrand felt he had to support france's main ally in east africa. they don't you will jointly. i was in john cleese talked me to fans office on october fifth. the phone rang. and i knew right away that hobby ari mana was on the line i mean they talked for four
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or five minutes. hung up and said well here we go they've gone berserk and could golly thank you for the rebels have reached the capital that wasn't true but that's what how the area mana had told them. to believe it though he said we'll send the guy some troops and it'll all be over in three months. that assessment was a bit premature this is. the force you need to. conclude that it is true. so how to change their way then went to mach two. and more. often that enables you to cause damage. but it was still somebody. i want to. know in one nine hundred ninety kg of me had
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been studying at a military college in the u.s. but returned to rwanda to leave the r.p.s. troops. his new strategy was to move his forces out of open areas where they were exposed to enemy attack and deploy them in the mouth. homo to god i did so but. i don't know. if it was up. to. me when your own you would say no. more to. the woman who was the head of to buy. is divided by this a little. but. we have the puzzles in this pretty close to make a choice it's a simple to be discreet in the end of the scene with the right to way and the right
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stuff. oh your pitch i don't think you know a novice should have been making the choice to finish. a new such as accounting photo to see. starting with our lives because so many people were killed. because of some industry. deployed to the other. he only deployed her young man his forces because they have no money forces and most initiative and responded to his movements. the french guilty side and supported. nor was. i possibly had the difference completely yeah because that i don't remember that
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a word of difference but what they had because when it got into the financial end of it. i had of them saying. that the far. you know they were like abusing them of course see. for us you need it doesn't name doesn't work for us they don't need it people are so you know many people in. the situation is that it but it is ended and it's not that people. may be well under sago mine understand. he used to own the weapons one zero five. more tears one hundred percent in the time of tears.
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it was. the inca tony suffered heavy casualties in the fighting. throughout one nine hundred ninety two there was a succession of battles and ceasefires the rebels seized towns that had been abandoned by terrified residents. gummies troops set up their headquarters at a tea factory in the village of which stands over the hills of northern rwanda. the inca tunney continued to advance at the same time government troops carried out a number of deadly attacks on tutsi civilians the soldiers referred to them derisively as indians or cockroaches. want to know. the any n.z. every turn. they've sent their own children to fight here.
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all of you know that let us exterminate these conscious. about what i'm like yeah yeah i remember what is written in the gospel. if you give the snake your chance to bite it will bite. i must drive all of them out to ethiopia now on. february eighth one thousand nine hundred ninety three a date that could have changed the course of history. in response to the first massacre the in qahtani launched a major attack that took them all the way to kick alley presidents have a year was forced to negotiate. and the region nobody does the same no no no. i mean. the french said yes but sure they may consider last wish. to pass the.
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suicide because. they decided against securing a quick military victory against the government. but he had definitely proven to the international community that his forces held the upper hand. in the. peace talks began in the tanzanian city of a russia. none of the sides involved in the conflict seemed interested in an agreement president hobby every month ahead little room to negotiate. the defense ministries chief of staff colonel teo nest bagosora refused to hold talks with the r.p.s. . and a powerful group of hutu extremists led by the president's wife worked hard to keep the tutsis from having a share of political power. and came here to negotiate
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the final details vote with the government classified in class. this stuff. didn't want to change anything. what happened was an ugly a shop by a foreigner in the us that's what he told us. and had to stop maybe taddy. but. so he went to negotiations with the news in the. us or. so and stormed out of the negotiation the russia that's what he told us. is going to. cuddle. up because it's. the in could turn a scored an impressive diplomatic victory they were assigned fully one half of the
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officers in rwanda's new army and forty percent of the rest of the troops. and they managed to secure a total of four ministries in the future a national unity government. but a whole. lot of what it. was thought it was six hundred in qahtani soldiers were sent to the new parliament in kigali to protect the took the politicians. oh my. remained at his headquarters in the indies was thousands of people gathered along the road between lindy and gully to cheer the in cotati troops. four months later most of them would be dead. i.
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say good to see everybody i mean that's the plan was to set up a transitional government. be a re mana kept putting it all report because he didn't want to press this is it's just to try the. president of the yairi munna was no isolated his political options were limited. in the early one nine hundred ninety four the situation created a power vacuum that was soon filled by hutu extremists. the group led by the president's wife and some senior military officers now stepped up their campaign against the two it seems. the president's paramilitary militias known as the interim way joined the campaign. colonel robot five hundred thousand machetes from china and handed them out to the hutus.
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and the state propaganda machine went into high gear the extremist hutu newspaper congress and especially the radio station mule colleen stirred up and he took the sentiment. they are evil the governments help us to exterminate better the enco tenney are an evil group the only solution is to exterminate them. the rule. or depot. when we listen to that radio station this e-mail colleen. and first week of school because we couldn't believe what they were saying. and put their broadcasts were done well and they were convincing so you had to respect them for that. they were real professionals and knew how to send the right messages. but but it wasn't until the genocide really started that we realized the role that this
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radio station was playing city duke the city that you. so fifty gully in this one plans to build the interim way massacred entire families of tutsis. it was the opening round of a campaign of ethnic cleansing that would soon haunt the region. these massacres gradually destroyed the trust that had slowly been established between the rwandan people and the rwandan patriotic front. to back their own for. every morning the interim holway drove past us in pickup trucks. we were in the building that housed the national development council today's parliament they drove through the streets and screamed we will kill you we will kill you and three to create move. in april one nine hundred ninety
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four president flew to tanzania to ratify peace treaties that would exclude hutu extremists from government. and the brutal but. the coup called before me. so i saw what was to do the president's problem. and a stable situation. for good or for the minister of defense regrets of inform you that one of them head of state has died of expected loss of insects and c. major general you've been all having your rimando was killed on april sixth one thousand nine hundred four at approximately eight thirty pm the solo the aircraft
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in which he was returning from dar es salaam was shot down in circumstances that are still not clear. who had shot down harvey yari manas plane there were several suspects including the radical hutus in the archives who group. they had an interest in removing a weak leader who had just sabotaged their political power. and paul konami who saw the president as an enemy who would likely never implement the terms of the peace treaty. in april one nine hundred ninety four rwanda descended into political chaos but the government responded remarkably quickly to honiara monastery. within minutes of the
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announcement the presidential guard set up barriers in checkpoints throughout the capital. the media theater that is he goes here they cordoned off everything and took control everywhere. it was we the police no longer had access to important parts of the city. or i mean you wouldn't see the u.n. peacekeeping troops couldn't get through either. we had the legal right to go where we needed to. but the presidential guards had everything locked down. soldiers had set up anti aircraft batteries. the investigation into the president's death claim that the belgians were responsible or perhaps the in. so so that didn't make any sense. no sense at all. since.
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at r.p.'s headquarters in monday james cabaret then a senior advisor to. brief us on the situation in the capital. around enough time. people plenty of. people have started. coming to me. so much so fast that as soon as the. i don't think even if five minutes plus. something was already up and. the next morning some moderate hutus were murdered. including prime minister a got to. ten belgian soldiers who'd been assigned to protect or were killed.
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for. the families the belgian soldiers are in danger they should stay home the presidential guard has arrived at the airport and they want all units to put down their weapons. they're going to tell them. they saw something. the radical hutus had sent a clear message to the united nations. at the same time men women and children of all ages whose identity cards identified them as tutsis were tortured and killed at checkpoints. played pretty good members of the interim morning in the presidential guard ran around killing everyone they could find. their wages i stayed at the presidential palace to take care of people who had fled there to do that it is the fish you live
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in with a lot of. it created maybe two to three hundred soldiers provided them with food and treated the wounded. needy victim and its the chief many of them had cuts and other injuries that this was a good lot of soldiers were also wounded. of course they're different about the sort of our cold but of sorrow. and told him if you continue like this it will never stop as always a clear cut the line and that's the last we heard of the fate of quebec that we came. but we're sorry for those who so it's clear you know bugger sort of had a lot of power look you know he was the chief of staff at the defense ministry of one and control the hutu militias and the presidential guard if we did see some officers wanted back was sort of to take our focus. it almost seemed as though
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they'd been planning for this for a long time. indeed it is a victory but others were against it. if you quote. an april eighth or a london caretaker government was assembled at the french embassy. the new prime minister was john come monday a banker and technocrat brought aboard but we will win the war against the time not i would be because with the support of the people the number them. and we will defeat them. about being. i knew immediately that force was in danger until it does who live there we knew. they would be attacked. and this was it emitted for us so the immediate thing they
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thought of was three fourths of. to reinforce their now wasn't when all in order to say i wasn't willing to ask you in to allow me to reinforce to them i knew this what was happening was not following in a ruse. by. this footage or if you got it was human or it was acquitted. so far in the military comes on the call for them that is stopping them from going out to kill people this. goes. for so if i was to. look to your question the dead have been lying here for three days men and women and a lot of children and young people all on. the
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international community intervene to evacuated citizens. this effort inadvertently led to one of the worst massacres in modern history the tutsi were left to try to defend themselves against hutu attacks. there were scenes of unimaginable barbarity and some of it was captured on video. of something this is also the to me we knew that the people we left behind would be killed. that's the stasi retailer to help them. and there were situations in which it would have been appropriate for us to ignore our orders up or see or hear for example we could have rescued the five thousand people who were hiding at the technical schooling people . or not but it wasn't far from the airport. we could have brought those people to mush. so we didn't. gave up and left it as an update their.
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own off when. they went to the. us when we went to plead she did she come. to accept. that the government of one. me to get genocide. that was a difficult. time some of the dinner was books was. one we need to reduce the subject and would say ok we won some question. to see. it seemed to push we're getting that puts. hundreds of court out of. security concern this is what the. muddling wrote about now distractions from above from the moves attentions. to miss new connections to.
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the new one to come join the service and in it since has to deploy forces. we have to kill the day off today. we are very committed you know we are doing everything here so that they cannot invade the city it was a little. japanese to you know. one day i recorded a ninety minute phone conversation with the mayor of. within you know. he had asked the prefect for help because the in qahtani were approaching his village for the needless accordion was he one of the officials to evacuate the village prefect stayed calm and said ok we'll take care of it and it went on like that. and it one point the mayor said everything else here is fine with what we're doing a good job i think we've taken care of the problem for the next one hundred years.
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and i'm out of iraq i would argue that it's over i could argue that we would have a had and have like i think it was. us traced fighting. there but shows me the military. fighting that in many shias i'm just going to still put keating with a little civilians and understanding guys mina's who. it was still his. so to speak well a kid outnumbered fifty times. by your p.f. think attorney forces were not very large overeaters and belgium center only twelve thousand five hundred soldiers. were killings everywhere that no army could have stopped it it would have taken three hundred thousand men.
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i was at an r.p. i think otani military camp about four or five kilometers from where. do you feel this would lead you the soldiers said they were going to take me to the site of a massacre. but i remember what one of them said to me at the time it really had an effect on me. he said when i saw all those dead people it felt like my brain was melting. my found that expression interesting he was so he just couldn't believe what he had seen people do that they've got. the volleys of a plane that in the middle of the first thing i saw about twenty meters from the church was the corpse of a child about two years old. there were three other dead bodies. there was a statue of christ at the church. they had used a machine gun to shoot his head off and i asked the soldier why and he said because that christ looked like a tootsie. she
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would have actually when i walked through all the buildings there were corpses everywhere in every building everywhere you looked. but it was pretty good also here in the inner courtyard of the seal the place was full of corpses thirty five thousand of. the ground was littered with dead people. turn. yet. there's. yet. another. third.
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