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Les massacres du Ruanda sont la manifestation d'une haine raciale soigneusement entretenue [Image petit format]

Card Number 31627

Number
31627
Author
Vuillemin, Denis-Gilles
Date
4 février 1964
Ymd
19640204
Uptitle
L'EXTERMINATION DES TUTSIS
Title
Les massacres du Ruanda sont la manifestation d'une haine raciale soigneusement entretenue [Image petit format]
Size
160354 bytes
Source
Type
Article de journal
Language
FR
Abstract
On February 4, 1964, the newspaper Le Monde published the testimony of a Swiss teacher Denis-Gilles Vuillemin denouncing the systematic massacres of Tutsi in the Gikongoro region. The person who gave a copy of this article noted: "What more can I say? It's already 1994". Historian Marcel Kabanda met Vuillemin before this great witness died in 2020 and compared his diary notes with reports from ICRC delegates. Vuillemin described with scientific meticulousness a genocide that was beginning. It was Christmas 1963…