Silent Accomplice

Furiously hard-hitting and thoroughly researched' The Independent 'Powerful. Wallis produces plentiful evidence that some French officers were training the Hutus how to capture and tie up prisoners, how to slit their bellies so that their bodies wouldn't float... Thre is no part of the French past that needs honesty and a clear break more than this.' - The Sunday Times "This book indicates the influence exerted by an ex-colonial power as a permanent member of the Security Council. On the difficult road that so many developing countries must travel towards the rule of law and human rights, as in the case of Rwanda, this interference and less than helpful involvement in the denouement of a civil war and genocide by different levels of the French Government is a reflection of self-interest and inept use of what should have been the moral authority of a world power.France could have lead the charge to reinforce the UN mission through direct support to the Franco-African nations that were ready to come and stop the human catastrophe and civil war. The French government instead chose to intervene on the side of one off the most ruthless and destructive group of genocidaires in world history." - Romeo Dallaire, Commander of UNAMIR peace-keeping force in Rwanda, 1993-1994 "Through the quality of his sources and the rigour of his analysis, Andrew Wallis renders France's complicity in the Rwandan Genocide undeniable" - Mehdia Ba, author of 'Rwanda, Un Genocide Francais'