mandate the immediately established contact with kagami be a political channels but it was right at the beginning of the operation he was informed that france did not intend to reconquer rwanda or oppose him or of the r.p.m. so it was really i. don't think we're i'm sure some of the french soldiers had served in rwanda a number of years earlier and now they were back in the same country except this time they had to assume a very different stance that they had to be impartial. impartial in the face of an ongoing genocide france's neutrality was repeatedly called into question by the external observers and later even by some french officers. when the captain told me we have orders to stop the r.p.s. via an ambush in the woods of new york way. more detail at six am when the helicopters were just taking off. a commanding officer came over crossed his arms and shouted stop stop stop it equipped helicopters that were already taking off had to land again the truth is philippine we were really annoyed because we prepared for the mission and of course everyone was feeling tense. but what i jumpe

we were sent to reason with kagami we said there are a couple of mad men in france who would like to fight against you and your side also had a few mad men who would be willing to fight the french so let's be reasonable and avoid that it is this room that's a meeting also saw the drawing up of the safe humanitarian zone then tensions between paris and konami were calmed at least temporarily nevertheless the into tiny refused to accept friends preventing them from winning the war they eventually resorted to action that has remained largely hidden from the public in mid july a few days before that final victory that you could turn you captured twenty three french troops attempting to cross their lines. twenty three. french troops captured. we use it almost two but again it was a lake look this is our country and we're going to enter this territory whether you want it. so if you believe that we would go there anyway because this is a territory. and. it's not. true at all right steve. chris. so there was that and it out today get to later on reserve it was approved. on mistakes and folli

kagami himself took a backseat leaving the fighting to his right hand man lieutenant colonel james cutter a.b. . my first meeting with the night is that it. was just here. in this image that it came. on hollow how the photo was that just within the sixties together with the truth of what i had to hide under the hood of books to what i did a fool i saw this is that right i'm on your way museveni the ugandan president provided park a dummy with diplomatic support and arms. he had the u.s. on his side while the french backed the leader in dictator of zaire mobutu says. it was the beginning of the first congo war starting with the dismantling of the hutu refugee camps. when the in cotati attacked they left a corridor open in the town of goma providing access to the rwandan border. and of these to. open the border enabling those refugees who had the opportunity to enter. a view enough he saw some of the soldiers also returned to rwanda. but the majority of them withdrew into the interior of the congo to. the refugee camps were shut down after two years in exile almost ninety percent of the dis

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through a game or became deputy minister of defense and kagami 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. in eighty six most of us however day being part of the. new. skills. we learned a lot growing. and maturing. but it. so we tried to bring everybody together. if oculus. their name to end is bullshit crud. through london 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. or ability. even hostile must be tiny before the last thirty. round gives a kind of being treated as they came over as well as you know you're always going to go on. being de