Published: April 2019
Updated: April 2024
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In 1994, a genocide occurred in Rwanda. But what really happened back then?
According to the official Western version, the Hutu shot down their own President’s plane and murdered hundreds of thousands of people â including many Hutu â, until they were finally stopped by the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and its commander Paul Kagame, who has ruled Rwanda as a democratic President ever since. US President Bill Clinton later apologized for his non-intervention in Rwanda and honored Paul Kagame as an outstanding statesman.
According to the unofficial version, the US-supported RPF militia shot down the Rwandan President’s plane (a so-called decapitation strike), then marched in from neighboring Uganda, murdering hundreds of thousands of people and driving out almost two million; Kagame has since ruled quasi-dictatorially in the interest of the US, with whose backing he invaded the resource-rich Congo in 1996, triggering the Congo war that lasted over seven years and caused 5 million deaths.
Thus, according to the unofficial version of events, Western media managed to turn the main victims into the aggressors, and the true aggressor into the main victim.
For those interested in the first version, watch the feature film Hotel Rwanda (2004) â one of the most inspiring films of all time according to the American Film Institute â or consult the award-winning Wikipedia article on the topic (for more about the role of Wikipedia, see here). âHotel Rwandaâ was co-produced by Canadian mining investor Frank Giustra, who is a board member of the Soros-funded International Crisis Group (ICG) and donated $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
The main actor and star of “Hotel Rwanda”, Paul Rusesabagina, later testified against President Kagame and was kidnapped and imprisoned, while the only evidence of a genocide planned by the Hutus â the so-called “genocide fax” â turned out to be a forgery. Moreover, Rwandan census data showed that from 1991 to 1994, the Tutsis killed far more Hutus than vice versa.
For those interested in the second version, watch the BBC documentary Rwanda’s Untold Story (2014) as well as the interview by German journalist Billy Six with Canadian Christopher Black (2017), the defense attorney at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Christopher Black’s opponent in both cases was Swiss chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte.
In a 2014 talk on “The Criminalisation of International Justice”, Christopher Black noted: “The point of these tribunals, why they were set up, is basically propaganda. The propaganda is meant to demonize the government which is being overthrown and to cover up the real role of the United States and its allies. That is the only role these tribunals really have.”
»What the world believes, and what actually happened, are quite different.«
Professor Allan C. Stam in Rwanda’s Untold Story
Videos
- Rwanda’s Untold Story (BBC, 2014)
- Interview with Christopher Black (Six, 2017)
- Presentation by Christopher Black (Rhodes, 2014)
Literature
- The Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan Genocide (Covert Action Magazine, 2021)
- Seized weapon sheds light on mystery of Rwandan genocide (The Globe and Mail, 2018)
- Hotel Propaganda: What Really Happened in Rwanda in 1994 (Global Research, 2014)
- Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction (2013)
- Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later (2014)
- Rwanda War & Genocide: An Overview (Whale, 2017)