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Note à l'attention de Monsieur le Président de la République. Objet : Rwanda - Situation militaire

Card Number 32426

Warning: this document expresses the ideology of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi or show tolerance towards it.

Number
32426
Author
Quesnot, Christian
Date
18 février 1993
Ymd
19930218
Title
Note à l'attention de Monsieur le Président de la République. Objet : Rwanda - Situation militaire
Cote
AN/PR-EMP, AG/5/(4)/12456
File name
Quesnot18fevrier1993.pdf
Size
435054 bytes
Pages nb.
1
Source
Présidence de la République (fr)
Public records
Duclert
Type
Note
Language
FR
Comment
The Duclert commission notes in his report on page 229: "On the copy of the document kept in the archives of the EMP (military staff adviser at Elysée), we notice a handwritten note signed Hubert Védrine 'Very reported' and a direct question from the President of the Republic: 'what would you advise?' The use of the term 'ethnic cleansing' is not insignificant". This copy does not include this exchange between Védrine and Mitterrand. We observe that the DGSE note of the same day evokes as an explanation for the recent massacres "a vast program of 'ethnic purification' directed against the Tutsis". General Quesnot here reverses killers and victims.