Massacre du 17 octobre 1961 : les preuves que le général de Gaulle savait

Arfi, Fabrice

6 juin 2022

20220606

Massacre du 17 octobre 1961 : les preuves que le général de Gaulle savait

Des archives inédites de la présidence de la République, consultées par Mediapart, le prouvent désormais : Charles de Gaulle et l'Élysée ont tout su — et très vite — de ce crime d'État. Le président a même demandé par écrit que les « coupables » soient poursuivis. Mais le massacre restera à jamais impuni, judiciairement et politiquement.

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There is apparently no connection between the liquidation of the Algerians in Paris on October 17, 1961 and the genocide of the Tutsi. Note, however, that the method of killing is the same. They club and throw the inanimate victim into the river, the Seine or the Nyabarongo. The symbolism is similar. The victim is sent back to his country by the shortest route, to Algeria for some, to Ethiopia where the Nyabarongo, a tributary of the Nile, leads for others. The crime is denied. In Paris it is the police who kill, in Rwanda the massacres are organized by the authorities. It is a crime of the State. Even more, it is the victims who are accused of it. The accusation in mirror plays full. In 1961, France supported Belgium at the UN, which supported Kayibanda's racist Parmehutu party, which took control of independent Rwanda in 1962. See Olivier Thimonier, Aux sources de la coopération franco-rwandaise, Golias magazine, n° 101, March 1, 2005, p. 14.