{The National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) has urged France to get in tandem with the delivery of justice following the decision of Spanish Interpol to cancel the Red Notices issued against 40 senior officers of the Rwandan government.}
Red Notices in question were issued 19th November 2015 by the Spanish branch of Interpol on the basis of a judicial investigation opened in 2005 against 40 senior Rwandan officers by Spanish Judge Fernando Andreu the Merelles which had resulted in the 2008 issuance of European arrest warrants.
Since the issuance, the National Fight against Genocide Commission has continued to denounce the unjust illegal warrants calling upon their cancellation.
In a statement released yesterday, the commission appreciated the decision of the Spanish Interpol to inform other national police forces of Member States of the cancellation of the red notices that had been distributed against 40 Rwandan soldiers.
The commission criticizes the decision of Judge Merelles over alleged actions of working in proximity with individuals known to be close in the circles of genocide.
“Judge Merelles had based his investigation on the testimonies of individuals known to be close to genocidal circles. He had no obligatory commitment nor expertise; not even heard from any witness or expert information from the defense or alleged suspect. His indictments acted in contravention of history and thorough decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and even national courts on the history of the genocide against the Tutsi,” reads part of the statement.
It also implicates that Judge Merelles had deliberately ignored the difference between a terrorist organization and a national liberation movement such as the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), an act considered as a new form of genocide denial which attempts to turn genocide perpetrators into victims (and vice versa).
In relation with the Spanish judiciary, CNLG urges France to be more transparent for French soldiers believed to have participated in Genocide perpetrated against Tutsi.
According to an investigation resumed in 2007 by Judges Marc Trévidic and Nathalie Poux that involved a visit to the scene, missiles which shot down the plane of President Habyarimana on 6 April 1994, came from the Kanombe military camp run by ex-FAR. This camp housed more specialized units, including the para-commando battalion and anti-aircraft fight (LAA) company that were during the time under the authority of Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, the mastermind of the genocide committed against Tutsis.
CNLG welcomes the dismissal of the indictments against the people falsely accused of unjustified arrest warrants issued by Judge Bruguière, based on motives other than judicial noting that the decision would silence some voices who theorize for a double genocide and whose master thinkers include members of an association “France Turquoise”.
Generals, Jacques Hogard, Jean-Claude La Fourcade Jacques Rosier and Michel Robardey have been cited as superior authorities clearly involved in the crimes committed in Rwanda in particular during Operation Turquoise.
As the statement reads, these superior authorities are all are founding members of the Association France-Turquoise, whose purpose is the justification of the role of its members in planning and eventual planning and deliberate demonization of Rwandan authorities.
As masterminds of Operation Turquoise, Colonel Hogard General and general La Fourcade refused to recognize the existence of the then ongoing genocide and did not hide their support towards extremists responsible for the genocide.
General Jacques Rosier was head of the Military Assistance Detachment and Instruction (RPC) between June 1992 and November 1992 during the period when the Rwandan army committed several massacres against Tutsis.
It was during that time that the Rwandan army intensified military and ideological training of Interahamwe in military camps where Jacques Rosier was the coordinator.
During the Turquoise operation in 1994, Jacques Rosier was the highest French military official on ground during the Bisesero massacres of June 30, 1994.
Michel Robardey was advisor to the Criminal Research Centre and documentation of the Rwandan gendarmerie, commonly called “Criminology”. Michel Robardey coordinated the data compilation activities concerning people that participated in the genocide.
It should also be remembered that on April 27 1994, Alain Juppé, then Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerome Bicamumpaka, the foreign minister of the government that was committing genocide and Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, one of the senior officials of the genocidal regime.
CNLG also urgues that financial institutions had provided ressources to the perpetrators of genocide until August 1994.These include Banque de France and the National Bank of Paris (BNP) believed to have honored the settlement of several deliveries of arms contracts during the time the genocide was at its peak.
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