[Today April 7, 2024, we commemorate the April 7, 1994 Genocide. Thirty years ago.]

Originally written in May 2000, the following text is Part B. of Chapter 7 entitled "Economic Genocide in Rwanda", of the Second Edition of The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order , Global Research, 2003. 

Installing a U.S Protectorate in Central Africa 

This  updates the author's analysis on Rwanda written in 1995 , which was published in the first edition.

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This text was in part based on the results and data of a study conducted under the auspices of the UNDP and the Government of Rwanda by  Belgian economist and Senator Pierre Galand and Canadian Professor Michel Chossudovsky.  My thanks and appreciation to Senator Pierre Galand.

See: 

Pierre Galand and Michel Chossudovsky, L'USAGE DE LA DETTE EXTERIEURE DU RWANDA (1990/1994), LA RESPONSABILITE DES BAILLEURS DE FONDS, ANALYSE ET RECOMMANDATIONS

Part B

Installing a U.S Protectorate in Central Africa 

From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington's hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America's design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)

From the mid-1980s, the Kampala government under President Yoweri Musaveni had become Washington's African showpiece of "democracy". Uganda had also become a launchpad for US sponsored guerilla movements into the Sudan, Rwanda and the Congo. Major General Paul Kagame had been head of military intelligence in the Ugandan Armed Forces; he had been trained at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College (CGSC) in Leavenworth, Kansas which focuses on warfighting and military strategy. Kagame returned from Leavenworth to lead the RPA, shortly after the 1990 invasion.