tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post114065716387367943..comments2024-01-30T20:05:29.835+10:00Comments on Woolly Days: A Fishy Story called RwandaDerek Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-40499872901063671892010-04-10T09:00:09.241+10:002010-04-10T09:00:09.241+10:00! really like your blog and i`ve seen this movie l...! really like your blog and i`ve seen this movie lately in my class...it was the saddest movie I ever seen. The fact it is or it was a reality is frightful! through this movie...the reporter said that people would watch this on the news and say how bad it is and go have dinnerand restorant...he is right. but the whole thing makes me wonder who killed the President? how do they know it was a Tutsi?Yevgeniyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-25877672763975550822007-06-24T23:10:00.000+10:002007-06-24T23:10:00.000+10:00Although Rwanda was a former Belgian colony, Franc...Although Rwanda was a former Belgian colony, France had been trying to make inroads in Rwanda since independence. <BR/><BR/>Whereas Belgium favoured the Tutsis during the colonial period, France curried favour with the Hutu administration that ruled independent Rwanda. It was part of their overall strategy to maintain a strong presence in Francophone Africa.<BR/><BR/>In the early President Mitterand was a close ally of Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and financed his government in arms, equipment and soldiers. <BR/><BR/>French involvement in the genocide remains controversial to this day and it is likely their Operation Turqoise was more an attempt to shore up the Hutu leadership than any humanitarian mission.Derek Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-26479623465597644652007-06-24T22:09:00.000+10:002007-06-24T22:09:00.000+10:00Why did the French arm the Hutus?Why did the French arm the Hutus?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com