Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Author’s note
The world is currently commemorating the 20th
anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The official story is that the
genocide directed against the Tutsi population was triggered by the
Interhamwe militia of the Habyarimana government in the wake of the
plane crash which led to the death of president Habyarimana. The
evidence suggests that the United States played a covert role in
shooting down the plane.
The geopolitics underlying the Rwandan genocide should be understood.
Whereas France was accused of supporting the
Habyarimana government. the United States played an undercover role in
triggering the genocide.
The ultimate objective was to displace France
from Central Africa. It is worth noting that that a similar situation is
unfolding in the Central African republic which historically has been
an area of French influence. Ethnic divisions between Christians and
Muslims are being fomented the ultimate objective is to establish a US
proxy states in the Central African republic.
The 1994 Rwandan “genocide” served strictly strategic and geopolitical objectives. The ethnic massacres were a stumbling blow to France’s credibility which enabled the US to establish a neocolonial foothold in Central Africa. From a distinctly Franco-Belgian colonial setting, the Rwandan capital Kigali has become –under the expatriate Tutsi led RPF government– distinctly Anglo-American. English has become the dominant language in government and the private sector. Many private businesses owned by Hutus were taken over in 1994 by returning Tutsi expatriates. The latter had been exiled in Anglophone Africa, the US and Britain.The Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) functions in English and Kinyarwanda, the University previously linked to France and Belgium functions in English. While English had become an official language alongside French and Kinyarwanda, French political and cultural influence will eventually be erased. Washington has become the new colonial master of a francophone country.
In the words of former Cooperation Minister Bernard Debré in the government of France’s Prime Minister Henri Balladur:
“What one forgets to say is that, if France was on one side, the Americans were on the other, arming the Ugandans, who armed the Tutsis. I don’t want to portray a showdown between the French and the Anglo-Saxons, but the truth must be told.” 43
Originally written in May 2000, published on
Global research in May 2003, the following text is Part II of Chapter 7
entitled “Economic Genocide in Rwanda”, Second Edition of The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order , Global Research, 2003.
Michel Chossudovsky, April 6, 2014
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Rwanda, Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa. The US was Behind the Rwanda Genocide
by Michel ChossudovskyFirst published in May 2000, posted by Global Research May 2003.
The civil war in Rwanda and the ethnic massacres were
an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance
with precise strategic and economic objectives.
From the mid-1980s, the Kampala government under
President Yoweri Musaveni had become Washington’s African showpiece of
“democracy”. Uganda had also become a launchpad for US sponsored
guerilla movements into the Sudan, Rwanda and the Congo. Major General
Paul Kagame had been head of military intelligence in the Ugandan Armed
Forces; he had been trained at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College
(CGSC) in Leavenworth, Kansas which focuses on warfighting and military
strategy. Kagame returned from Leavenworth to lead the RPA, shortly
after the 1990 invasion.
Prior to the outbreak of the Rwandan civil war, the
RPA was part of the Ugandan Armed Forces. Shortly prior to the October
1990 invasion of Rwanda, military labels were switched. From one day to
the next, large numbers of Ugandan soldiers joined the ranks of the
Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA). Throughout the civil war, the RPA was
supplied from United People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) military bases
inside Uganda. The Tutsi commissioned officers in the Ugandan army took
over positions in the RPA. The October 1990 invasion by Ugandan forces
was presented to public opinion as a war of liberation by a Tutsi led
guerilla army.
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