Kigali was also infuriated by the accusation of anti-terrorism investigating magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière that Kagame and others were responsible for shooting down the French private jet carrying the then Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and his Burundian opposite number Cyprien Ntaryamira – along with the French pilots and cabin crew – on 6 April 1994 which triggered the genocide (AC Vol 45 No 6 Who fired the missiles...

French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière had earlier accused nine FPR men including Kagame himself...

An independent inquiry (see Pointer) has scotched the accusation by French anti-terrorism Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière that Kagame's Front Populaire Rwandais (FPR) triggered the genocide by shooting down the aircraft carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994...

All this contradicts the findings of French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière; he blamed the FPR...

They reacted in the same way to warrants issued in 2006 by a French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière against Kagame and eight other APR officials (AC Vol 47 No 24) one result of which was the arrest and extradition from Germany to France in November 2008 of ex-Colonel Rose Kabuye who is now a Rwandan diplomatic officer (AC Vol 49 No 24)...

The international arrest warrant for Kabuye was issued in November 2006 by French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière...

This was clearly a counter-move to the late 2006 request by French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière for international arrest warrants against Kagame and eight senior officials of his Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) on charges of murdering President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 and thus of starting what became the genocide...

RWANDA: Relations with France have been frozen since 2004 when French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière accused nine associates of Rwandan President Paul Kagame of taking part in the murder of President Juvénal Habyarimana...

Last month French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner questioned the evidence behind French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière's issuing of arrest warrants for Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his allies which sparked the crisis in November 2006...