{"id":37021,"date":"2018-02-26T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/retired-french-soldier-to-publish-a-book-pinning\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:24:50","slug":"retired-french-soldier-to-publish-a-book-pinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/retired-french-soldier-to-publish-a-book-pinning\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired French soldier to publish a book pinning France on role in genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillaume had been in Rwanda under the French-led military operation \u2018Operation Turquoise\u2019 under the mandate of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

He has, for long, been saying that France supported the genocidal government, but it is the first time to reveal particular massacre that was committed by French soldiers.<\/p>\n

On April 7, 2014, twenty years after the genocide against the Tutsi, Guillaume told Jeunafrique\u2019s journalist Mehdi Ba that French soldiers who had been in Op\u00e9ration Turquoise supported the government that committed the genocide in terms of providing weapons which were also used during freeing period to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and reorganization to attack the country. <\/p>\n

Guillaume was explaining the content in previous book dubbed \u2018Vents sombres sur le lac Kivu\u2019 loosely translated as \u2018Dark Winds on Kivu Lake\u2019 which has testimonies of what he witnessed while in Rwanda and his 2500 colleagues since June 1994. <\/p>\n

The new book set for launch was dubbed \u2018Rwanda, la fin du silence\u2019, \u2018The end of the Silence\u2019 <\/p>\n

The book will be launched next month in the France-based publishing house, \u2018Les Belles Lettres\u2019.<\/p>\n

Guillaume who was Captain in 1994, says that though \u2018Op\u00e9ration Turqouise\u2019 was masqueraded as was targeting to save lives of victims of the genocide and stop it from happening, he says the target was to support the genocidal government and fight the Rwanda Patriotic Army, which was fighting to stop the genocide. <\/p>\n

He said that all actions by French Army were masterminded by political interests which are yet to be revealed due to inaccessibility of archives containing all information. <\/p>\n

The preface of the book says that there is unrecorded information about the massacre done by French army whether in self-protection acts and organized ones.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Guillaume urged France to reveal the truth, if they want to avoid the recurrence of similar mistakes.<\/p>\n

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Guillaume Ancel, a retired French Army officer who had been in Rwanda in 1994 is set to launch a book pinning France on its role in supporting the government that prepared and executed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}