French probe finds missile fire from military camp downed Rwandan president's pl

[Guest guest]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/french-probe-finds-missile-fire-military-camp-downed-17\

4803268.html

French probe finds missile fire from military camp downed Rwandan president's

plane in 1994

By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – 35 minutes ago

PARIS - A lawyer says a French judge has determined that the missile fire that

brought down the Rwandan president's plane and sparked the country's genocide

came from a military camp, and not Tutsi rebels.

The ruling is in line with a report from the Rwandan government that also found

extremist Hutus to blame.

After the April 1994 crash that killed then-President Juvenal Habyarimana,

militants from the Hutu ethnic majority quickly set up roadblocks across the

capital.

More than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred in 100 days of

frenzied killing. Habyarimana was Hutu

Lawyer Bernard Maingain, whose clients are close to President Kagame and

were under investigation, described the judge's findings Tuesday.