Title
La proposition d'Alain Juppé pour une intervention humanitaire de la France et de ses partenaires européens et africains n'a eu pour l'heure que peu d'écho. En attendant, les enfants meurent au Rwanda
Abstract
- The fighting resumed this morning in Kigali. The government forces and the Rwandan rebels ignore the ceasefire, announced yesterday [June 15] by their representative under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity.
- Alain Juppé's proposal for a humanitarian intervention by France and its European and African partners has so far received little response.
- In the meantime, children are dying in Rwanda. Those who escaped are haunted by the memory of the massacres, worried that the assassins will return to look for them.
- At the summit held yesterday [June 15] in Tunis, Africa said it was ready to take responsibility but does not have the means. The UN ended up deciding to tiptoe the 5,500 peacekeepers Rwanda is still waiting for.
- France would be ready for an intervention. But with what mandate, armed or not? If the intention is courageous belatedly, even laudable, our country is unfortunately no longer welcome in the land of a thousand hills.
Comment
This report is a model of duplicity with power: the short statement of the representative of the RPF is not made explicit; on the other hand, the viewer is saturated with images of excruciatingly mutilated children or in the most total destitution to justify the intervention from France to Rwanda. The journalist is also aware of this manipulation since she takes the trouble to clarify: "Easy, some would say, these images of children".