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The outpouring of grief and horrific memories ten years after Rwanda's genocide has been accompanied by a less dignified round of finger-pointing among governments, diplomats and journalists. It started last month with Stephen Smith's article in the Paris daily Le Monde commenting on a report by France's anti-terrorist police, claiming that soldiers from the Front Patriotique Rwandais under General Paul Kagame's command shot down the jet carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 (AC Vol 45 No 6). Hours later the genocide had started....

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Stephen Smith, Paul Kagame, Juvénal Habyarimana, Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, Dominique de Villepin, Paul Dijoud, François Mitterrand, Dominique Lemonnier, Britain, United States, Roméo Dallaire, Canadian, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, British, Bill Clinton, Alison DesForges, Nigeria, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Le Monde, Front Patriotique Rwandais, Le Figaro, Directeur des affaires, commandement des opérations spéciales, Interahamwé, L'Inavouable: La France au Rwanda.

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