New York, September 17, 2010
AfroAmerica Network has learned French President Sarkozy plan to reshuffle their government after the UN Assembly General to be held in New York City next week.
The reshuffle will particularly see the controversial current French Foreign Affairs Minister, Bernard Kushner go. Bernard Kushner has been particularly targeted byt French military generals and intelligence services for his role in promoting the interests of his friend, the Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame to the detriment of French interests in the region. However, the proponents of Bernard Kushner argue that he was instrumental in reestablishing the diplomatic relations with Rwanda, after few years of enmity.
Even this may not be to Kushner’s credit. AfroAmerica Network has learned that when diplomatic relations were severed in November 2006, France maintained active intelligence operatives in the region. Rwanda intelligences were able to infiltrate them and who they were and were located. Then, in 2009 Major Rose Kabuye, the Rwandan Chief of State Protocol and a close aid to the Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame was arrested in Germany and extradited to France to face accusations of terrorism and shooting down the plane of Rwandan and Burundian Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira. Shortly after, Rwandan security services arrested and kidnapped three French Intelligence operatives in Kigali and Bujumbura.
The French government tasked Bernard Kushner to secure the release of the French operatives using his personal relations with Pau Kagame. Paul Kagame gave two conditions: drop all charges against him and his closest aids including Major Rose Kabuye and the resumption of diplomatic relations. After lengthy negotiations, France accepted to release Major Rose Kabuye, start from scratch the investigations into the shooting down of President Habyarimana’s plane and resume the diplomatic relations.
As a counterpart, Rwanda released thee French intelligence operatives.
©AfroAmerica Network, 2010
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