Enquêter sur la France au Rwanda en contexte militant. Entretien avec François Graner

Mourre, Martin

Piton, Florent

Powell, Nathaniel

8 novembre 2021

20211108

Enquêter sur la France au Rwanda en contexte militant. Entretien avec François Graner

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This interview was carried out on May 18, 2021, a few weeks after the submission of the report of the Research Commission on French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide (known as the Duclert Commission, named after its president) and before the visit on May 27 from Emmanuel Macron in Rwanda. A long-time member of the Survie association, also director of research in physics, François Graner is the author of two books relating to French action in Rwanda before, during and after the Tutsi genocide, the last of which, co -written with Raphaël Doridant, was published in 2020 [Doridant Raphaël and Graner François (2020), L'État français et le genocide des Tutsis au Rwanda, Marseille, Agone]. At the end of a procedure of several years, François Graner also obtained, in June 2020 by a contentious decision of the Council of State, the lifting of a series of blockages preventing him from accessing the archives of President Mitterrand. on Rwanda. Rather than questioning him, as has been done in other journals and other contexts, on the procedure which enabled him to obtain this decision or on his conclusions and those of Survie regarding the role of France in the Rwanda, we wanted to come back with him to the sources mobilized to write this history of France in Rwanda. It was also an opportunity to reflect on the differences and complementarities between academic research and associative research and, finally, to comment more directly on the scope of the Duclert report.