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To: Dane
Ivory Coast, French Indo-China, Haiti, Algeria, Languadoc, St. Bart's Day, Franco-Prussian War, Treaty of Versailles, 1930's secret treaties with Italy regarding Ethiopia, Syrian Mandate to name but a few.

The fruits of French diplomacy: Well fermented and totally demented!

8 posted on 09/12/2003 7:23:08 PM PDT by sully777 (We have need of history, not to fall back on, but to see if we can escape from it--Ortega Y Gasset)
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To: sully777
The fruits of French diplomacy: Well fermented and totally demented!

You forgot Rwanda:

Disturbing article about Rwanda, France, UN, Belgium, Annan, and Clinton (Read this one)

The behaviour of the French was worse than that of the Belgians. Eager to become the pivotal power in the Great Lakes region, they aided and abetted the massacres at every turn. The Akazu death squads had received military training from the French; Hutu extremists were always assured of a warm welcome in Paris and the flow of French arms to the Hutus continued throughout the genocide. Whenever the Tutsis regrouped sufficiently to threaten Hutu power, France mounted a discreet military intervention to save its friends. The French troops who arrived towards the end of the 1994 massacres were thoroughly confused by the reality of the million Tutsi dead: they had been told they were coming in to prevent a massacre of Hutus by the Tutsi minority.

25 posted on 09/12/2003 10:24:02 PM PDT by Stultis
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