Conviction of a doctor in France in relation to the Rwandan genocide

According to the report of Fars News Agency, the French channel “France 24” reported, the criminal court in Paris has sentenced a former doctor to 24 years in prison for the crime of involvement in the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. .

According to “Anatolia” news agency, the trial of the 68-year-old doctor, Susteneh Manimana, began on November 14 (Aban 23), and a criminal trial in the city of Paris concluded. This trial found him guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit crimes.

Manimana used an office in southern Rwanda to detain a group of members of the “Tutsi” tribe. who were later executed in another place, he was accused, but during this trial he denied his accusation.

He told the court that his intention to keep these members of the Tutsi tribe was to make them saved and kept as a refugee in his office. He also said that he did not know that these members were going to be executed in another place and that they probably deceived him. He started working as a doctor.

In the same year, the genocide of more than one million people, mainly members of the Tutsi minority, by Hutu extremists took place in Rwanda. This genocide occurred after the death of Juvenal Habyarimana, then president of Rwanda, and his counterpart from Burundi, Siprit Ntariamira, in a plane crash in April 1994.

According to estimates During this genocide, more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi tribe and moderate members of the Hutu tribe were killed within 100 days. He officially accepted the responsibility of his country in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced at that time during his visit to Kigali, the capital of the African country Rwanda. that Paris is asking for forgiveness from Kigali for its role in the massacre of 1994.

The French president, during his visit to Kigali, stated that Paris accepts its responsibility for the genocide in Rwanda 27 years ago, but without Official apology, asked for forgiveness for his country’s role in this humanitarian disaster.

These statements of the French President during an official speech at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the place where 250 thousand victims of mass murder have been buried, it was raised.

While the French president has accepted the responsibility of his country in the Rwandan genocide, in early April 1400, a group of French historians in an official report to the office of “Emmanuel Macron” The president of France considered this country to have “great responsibility” in the massive massacre of 1994 in the country of “Rwanda”. This report stated that the French government was in collaboration with the then government of Rwanda in In 1994, he had a large participation in the genocide of the “Tutsi” minority.

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