Operation Turquoise

Operation Turquoise:
A French Travesty; June – August, 1994

Junior Senior Seminar: The Rwanda Genocide 960:192:1C
Professor Donna Maier
April 30, 2010
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From April 6th, 1994 to the end of August, the world hoped, prayed, and in some cases lobbied for the individuals involved in the Rwanda Genocide. The world was not informed of any specifics as to what was happening but only that hundreds of thousands of people were dying at both the hands of others and the hands of God. In lieu of those individuals who could not help themselves, a small UN mandated force was developed to ease the suffering of those left standing. Unknown to the UN, the primarily French force played a very special role in the Rwandan crisis; one that makes the French government as, if not more responsible for the genocidal death of 800,000 people.
The French were not the primary instigators of the atrocities that occurred throughout Rwandan history not the Germans or Belgians that held colonization rights to the country from February 26th, 1885 to July 1st, 1962. It was the Catholic Church and the Belgian colonizers who devised the Hutu/Tutsi divisions making Tutsi’s the supreme beings in Rwanda. After Rwandan independence, France took on a greater interest in the country for various arguable reasons. France therefore had much at stake in the domestic development and government in Rwanda.
The relationship France had with the authoritarian Rwandan regime was close however the relationship France had with the second Hutu president, since their independence was even closer. President Juvénal Habyarimana took power on July 5th, 1973 and held it until his untimely death when his plane was shot down and hence triggered the mass annihilation of the Tutsi population. France successfully maintained ties with the country as a way to not only maintain its influence in the region but more importantly to deny influence from the Anglo

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