Rwanda, vers l'apocalypse
Directed by Seamus Haley, Maria Malagardis, Michaël Sztanke70mDocumentary
On April 6, 1994, Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana returned from a meeting in Tanzania aboard a Falcon 50 offered by François Mitterrand, the regime's closest ally. As the aircraft began its descent, two missiles pierced the darkness. The plane crashed into the gardens of the presidential residence. This attack immediately gave the signal. The genocide of the Tutsi minority had just begun. One million dead in three months. A far cry from the "African-style" inter-ethnic massacres presented by the Elysée Palace at the time to minimize the scale of the horror. This genocide had been planned for years, under the eyes of France, deaf to warnings.
