The ruthlessness of France

Here (via American Thinker) is a Times of London review of a book about French complicity in Rwanda, Silent Accomplice. Author Andrew Wallis accuses the French government of being so obsessed with its diplomatic rivalry with Britain and other English-speaking countries—despite the one-sided character of this rivalry, whose Anglophone side is no longer really in the game—that it preferred to assist a Francophone government in Rwanda to commit genocide rather than permit the faction of the Anglophone Paul Kagame to take power. "[I]t seems there are many eyewitnesses of French troops assisting at torture sessions and catching Tutsis and handing them over to Hutus who hacked them to death before their eyes", while François Mitterrand memorably remarked of the mass killings, "Dans ces pays-là, un genocide ... n'est pas trop important." Several genocidaires, the review says, still live happily in France, whose élite have yet to admit to any wrongdoing in Rwanda.

This kind of behaviour prompts one to think about what would happen should the French élite come to regard the Muslim presence in their country as a threat, not merely to their prestige in a mostly symbolic "Great Game", but to their domestic power and privileges. Theodore Dalrymple some time ago made a remark along the lines that he expected the French ruling class to massacre their Muslim population rather than give up power. The present book review suggests that the French can be brutal and ruthless enough to do just that.

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