Published on Jan 11, 2012 by
Euronews
http://www.euronews.net/ A plane carrying the Rwandan president in 1994 was shot down by his own troops, according to a French judge.
The latest inquiry into Juvenal Habyarimana's death contradicts an earlier French ruling that blamed the rebel fighters led by Paul Kagame, the current president.
The assassination of Habyarimana, who was from the Hutu tribe, sparked the Rwandan genocide which, according to the UN, cost the lives of 800,000 Tutsis in a little more than three months.
The latest inquiry into Juvenal Habyarimana's death contradicts an earlier French ruling that blamed the rebel fighters led by Paul Kagame, the current president.
The assassination of Habyarimana, who was from the Hutu tribe, sparked the Rwandan genocide which, according to the UN, cost the lives of 800,000 Tutsis in a little more than three months.