Editor,Frank Kagabo’s article (The endless circus of Genocide fugitives and France, The New Times, December 23), is an excellent expose though based on at least two erroneous assumptions. The first is the belief, constantly promoted by Western elites, about separation of political and judicial powers (and the freedom of the press). Yes, this often seems true, but is more apparent than real, especially where it concerns foreign affairs where both the judiciary and the media will mostly defer to political power. The second misconception is the assumption that France has ever disenfranchised itself from it’s Hutu Power allies, or even wishes to do so. The fervent wish of the French Establishment is that the Genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi had not been inconclusive. And as for the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), this was merely conceived and proposed by Kofi Annan on the 10th Anniversary of the Genocide as a way to deflect attention from his role in allowing that crime to happen. The West, as usual, then run off with the idea and bent it out of all recognition to shape it into a tool of control of governments of less developed countries. The same way they have done with international tribunals – or the UN for that matter – which are only to beat up the less powerful with.Mwene Kalinda,
