French army officer Lieutenant Colonel @guillaume_ancel testified how, after abandoning the Tutsi to die in 1994, the UN authorized a French intervention whose undeclared objective was to reinstall the genocidal regime that had just murdered a million Tutsi. Ancel says the first operational order he received under Operation Turquoise was to prepare a raid on Kigali to reinstall the regime. He was to conduct aerial strikes against RPA troops who were advancing as fast as they could to save Tutsi across the country. Ancel also says that when that first mission was aborted, French troops organized the retreat of the genocidal army and militias across the border to the Congo (then Zaire), where they reorganized. He adds that he witnessed arms deliveries by France to these refugee camps, which had become military camps. He was asked to divert the attention of the media away from these arms deliveries. He is also adamant that Operation Turquoise was never intended to save the Tutsi, as advertised by the French government. As evidence, he points to an episode that took place in Bisesero. On 27 June, 1994, around 2,000 Tutsi — hiding, starving, wounded — were discovered by French special forces, who were given orders to abandon them instead of escorting them to a safe place. "They didn't save them because it was not their mission to save Tutsi or to stop the genocide," says Ancel. When these troops came back two days later, half the Tutsi had been massacred, while others survived using stones and whatever they could throw at their killers. This is our history. A foreign government was willing to put back in power, through force, a regime that had just committed genocide, under the umbrella of a UN resolution authorized by all permanent members of the UN Security Council. Those who say the RPA, then led by Major General Paul Kagame, was a US proxy are simply mad and are usually also genocide deniers. Rwanda was never their darling. They left her to the dogs, and she survived against all odds. Cc: @ali_naka @Ali_Rukaliza @albcontact @wmnjoya @RobCyubahiro @byukavuba @dr_dash250 @onduhungirehe @DavidHundeyin @Nath_Yamb @cobbo3 @AndrewMwenda @DavidNdii @EFFSouthAfrica @MbuyiseniNdlozi

🚨🎙️XSpace What does it mean to truly love your country? How can young people preserve and strengthen the values that define us as a nation? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion featuring voices from music, media, and youth leadership as we unpack the theme: “Gukunda igihugu, Umurage Dukomeyeho.” 🗓️ Thursday, 18 June 2026 ⏰ 20:00 Kigali Time 📍 X Space: @FabRugumire Let’s celebrate the legacy we inherited and the responsibility we share to build an even stronger Rwanda for future generations. Urukundo rw’Igihugu si amagambo gusa, ni ibikorwa bya buri munsi. #Patriotism | #RwandaIsHome

🚨🎙️XSpace What does it mean to truly love your country? How can young people preserve and strengthen the values that define us as a nation? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion featuring voices from music, media, and youth leadership as we unpack the theme: “Gukunda igihugu, Umurage Dukomeyeho.” 🗓️ Thursday, 18 June 2026 ⏰ 20:00 Kigali Time 📍 X Space: @FabRugumire Let’s celebrate the legacy we inherited and the responsibility we share to build an even stronger Rwanda for future generations. Urukundo rw’Igihugu si amagambo gusa, ni ibikorwa bya buri munsi. #Patriotism | #RwandaIsHome

🚨🎙️XSpace What does it mean to truly love your country? How can young people preserve and strengthen the values that define us as a nation? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion featuring voices from music, media, and youth leadership as we unpack the theme: “Gukunda igihugu, Umurage Dukomeyeho.” 🗓️ Thursday, 18 June 2026 ⏰ 20:00 Kigali Time 📍 X Space: @FabRugumire Let’s celebrate the legacy we inherited and the responsibility we share to build an even stronger Rwanda for future generations. Urukundo rw’Igihugu si amagambo gusa, ni ibikorwa bya buri munsi. #Patriotism | #RwandaIsHome

This video highlights the origins of Rwanda’s liberation struggle and the important contributions made by Rwandan refugees both abroad and within the country. It illustrates how many Tutsi, despite being displaced, excluded, or forced into refugee life, remained committed to the struggle for their rights and for a peaceful, united Rwanda. The video also demonstrates the resilience and determination of the RPA/F Inkotanyi under the leadership of His Excellency President Paul Kagame. Beginning with very limited resources and equipment, they faced a well-armed regime that later carried out the Genocide against the Tutsi. Through discipline, strategic leadership, and the support of Rwandans both inside and outside the country, the liberation forces gradually strengthened their capabilities. Materials and equipment captured from defeated former government forces (Ex-FAR) during battles contributed to improving their operational capacity. We express our sincere appreciation to all those who contributed to Rwanda’s liberation, including refugees in the diaspora and those who endured hardship within the country. We also recognize the courage, sacrifice, and leadership of President Paul Kagame and the Inkotanyi, whose efforts helped stop the Genocide against the Tutsi and laid the foundation for peace, unity, security, and national development. Their legacy continues to inspire future generations to uphold the values of patriotism, resilience, and human dignity.

4 July marks Rwanda’s Liberation Day, commemorating the decisive role of the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) in stopping the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and liberating the country. As the international community failed to intervene meaningfully while the massacres unfolded, the RPA advanced to end the genocide, rescue countless lives, and lay the foundation for a united, secure, and prosperous Rwanda. During the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, over one million Tutsis were systematically murdered in just 100 days by Hutu extremists, the interim government, the FAR army, and Interahamwe militias. In response, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), the military wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, under the command of Major General Paul Kagame, launched a decisive offensive on 8 April 1994. Its mission was clear: stop the genocide and rescue trapped civilians and RPA forces in Kigali. Through disciplined, multi-front operations, the RPA rapidly liberated northern and eastern regions, severed supply lines to the genocidal regime, captured Gitarama on 13 June, and liberated the capital Kigali on 4 July 1994. The RPA’s victory dismantled the machinery of extermination, halted the organized mass killings, and liberated Rwanda from a regime intent on the total destruction of the Tutsi people. A new Government of National Unity was formed, marking the beginning of Rwanda’s reconstruction under RPF leadership. #InkotanyiNiUbuzima @UN @RwandaUN @UNHumanRights @UN_Women @hrw @HRF @JF_LE_DRIAN @xtr_africa