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Rafiki Hyacinthe Nsengiyumva, ministre des Transports et de l'Énergie de l'ex-gouvernement rwandais : « À l'extérieur, nous nous organiserons. Ce n'est que partie remise »
Card Number 36043
Number
36043
Author
Lefait, Philippe
Author
Boussié, Laurent
Date
15 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940715
Time
24:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 24 heures
Title
Rafiki Hyacinthe Nsengiyumva, ministre des Transports et de l'Énergie de l'ex-gouvernement rwandais : « À l'extérieur, nous nous organiserons. Ce n'est que partie remise »
Subtitle
La France déclare qu'elle ne tolérera aucune activité politique ou militaire dans la zone humanitaire qu'elle contrôle.
Size
22078 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
Public records
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- The mass exodus of Hutu refugees continues in eastern Zaire. They now number over 250,000.
- At the UN in New York, the Patriotic Front announced the formation of a broad-based national unity government and a unilateral ceasefire next week.
- France, faced with the confirmed presence of members of the interim government who fled into the humanitarian zone it controls, declared that it would not tolerate any political or military activity in this region.
- They number in the tens of thousands, spread over dozens of kilometers. A people on the move, fleeing their country, driven as much by the advance of the RPF as by the propaganda of the former Rwandan government, which urged them to leave their villages.
- After the civilians, now estimated at over 500,000, it is now Rwandan army soldiers who are seeking refuge in Zaire. An army in disarray, with its wounded, its able-bodied men, and its officers without orders or weapons.
- At the border, the Zairian military is relentlessly hunting down all weapons, grenades, machetes, and other instruments of death. As a result, rifles, Kalashnikovs, machetes, and pistols are piling up all around the post.
- A little further on, in Rwandan territory, in the last few square kilometers held by the former government, militiamen are still parading in the streets. But here the exodus is even more massive, and one can even encounter former ministers who are already talking about reconquest. Rafiki Hyacinthe Nsengiyumva, Minister of Transport and Energy in the former Rwandan government: "When the RPF enters Gisenyi, we will not risk our lives because we know we are the RPF's favorite target. We will go outside, we will organize ourselves. This is just a postponement".
- But for now, it is still a debacle for the former Rwandan government. A debacle that has resulted in the largest population exodus of the end of this century.
- At the UN in New York, the Patriotic Front announced the formation of a broad-based national unity government and a unilateral ceasefire next week.
- France, faced with the confirmed presence of members of the interim government who fled into the humanitarian zone it controls, declared that it would not tolerate any political or military activity in this region.
- They number in the tens of thousands, spread over dozens of kilometers. A people on the move, fleeing their country, driven as much by the advance of the RPF as by the propaganda of the former Rwandan government, which urged them to leave their villages.
- After the civilians, now estimated at over 500,000, it is now Rwandan army soldiers who are seeking refuge in Zaire. An army in disarray, with its wounded, its able-bodied men, and its officers without orders or weapons.
- At the border, the Zairian military is relentlessly hunting down all weapons, grenades, machetes, and other instruments of death. As a result, rifles, Kalashnikovs, machetes, and pistols are piling up all around the post.
- A little further on, in Rwandan territory, in the last few square kilometers held by the former government, militiamen are still parading in the streets. But here the exodus is even more massive, and one can even encounter former ministers who are already talking about reconquest. Rafiki Hyacinthe Nsengiyumva, Minister of Transport and Energy in the former Rwandan government: "When the RPF enters Gisenyi, we will not risk our lives because we know we are the RPF's favorite target. We will go outside, we will organize ourselves. This is just a postponement".
- But for now, it is still a debacle for the former Rwandan government. A debacle that has resulted in the largest population exodus of the end of this century.