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| Rwandan leader's widow denied asylum in France |
| 2007-02-16 |
| The widow of Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana, whose murder sparked the 1994 genocide, has had a plea for asylum turned down by France because she may have played a part in encouraging the killings, officials said Thursday. An appeal body confirmed a January 4 ruling by the refugee office OFPRA, which said that Agathe Habyarimana may have taken part "as a instigator or accomplice" in the "crime of genocide". Habyarimana, who has lived in France since she was evacuated by French troops after the genocide, applied for asylum in 2004. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #5 reason? Suha has $...nuff said |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-16 18:46 |
| #4 Suha yes. Agathe no. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-16 18:33 |
| #3 Weapons, training and a couple years before the genocide with the Rwandese Army fleeing in front of the Tutsis of the FPR it was the French Army who stopped the FPR. However the worst is that the French have continued their support of the Hutu extremists after the genocide when they could no longer ignore what kind of monsters they were helping. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-02-16 10:46 |
| #2 Didn't the Hutu get their weapons from the French? |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-02-16 09:12 |
| #1 Don't think a in poor, lonely widow. Think in a fra blood thirstier Winnie Mandela. She was a main proponent of the HUTU Power faction, she opposed her husband when he pacted with the FPR (a Tutsi movement). Rumors say she was implicated in the assassination of her husband. Real solid proofs that she was implicated in the genocide. The French Army exfiltrated her from Rwanda in 1994. It is a shame that she is allowed to live in France. Well it is also a shame that some French politicians are allowed to live in France. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-02-16 07:25 |