Rwandan Genocide
François Graner and association "Survie" won a long legal battle to gain access to former French president Mitterrand's archive on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Mitterrand was president from 1981 to 1995. His archive was declassified in 2015 but upon request for access, Graner was told the presidential archive should remain secret.
Graner now was granted access by France's highest administrative court "to shed light on a debate that is a matter of public interest".
In the 1994 Rwandan genocide Hutu militias killed over 800,000 Tutsis over the course of 100 days. One of the suspects, Félicien Kabuga, was arrested on May 16th in Paris for his involvement. Prosecutors are indicting him for genocide, incitement to commit genocide and arming the Hutu militias. Kabuga is protesting his innocence: “All of this is lies. I have not killed any Tutsis. I was working with them.”
Félicien Kabuga, accused of funding the massacres in Rwanda in 1994, was on the run for 25 years.
He has been arrested by the French police today near Paris where he was living under a false identity.
About 800 000 people were killed during the Rwandan genocide.
The French judicial authority should rapidly rule on sending Félicien Kabuga to The Hague international court.