Here is the CM/P translation of French journalist Pierre Péan’s statement to the Court of Paris in his trial for incitation to racial hatred (Hate Speech?) and racial defamation.

I devoured Péan’s book on Rwanda, ‘Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs’ [Black Fury, White Liars], and wish I could have translated and posted the whole thing here. It describes in the most vivid detail not just who killed how many of whom, by what means, where and why, but how world opinion was shaped so as to make those foreigners who aggressed Rwanda on 1 October 1990, the bloodthirsty Ugandan NRA personnel who still make up the Rwandan Patriotic Front (the putatively Tutsi-RPF), which in four terror-filled years thoroughly decimated the population of that small, tightly-packed nation—and are currently continuing a similar ten-year+ plan of ‘population control for resource rip-off’ in eastern Congo—to turn this Western proxy liquifactionist force into the VICTIMS of the most publicized genocide since WWII; while the Rwandan nation, with its socialist revolution, was brutally penetrated, terrorized and slaughtered—with those whom the RPF couldn’t kill sent fleeing into neighboring states—and these refugees, men, women and children from every ethnic and tribal background are still being decried as ‘genocidaire’, as risks to Rwanda’s vaunted national security, and are today being hunted down in the millions—like Alaskan game caught in the floods of Sarah Palin’s helicopters, but by a factor of 100K.

So much of the information that is essential to an understanding of the geopolitics and history of Central Africa is written in French, that, since I’ve started translating some of these texts, I’ve been overcome with anxiety over just how best to let my friends back in Babble-ON know what’s up. If you watched the last presidential debate, even at 3 am—when it tipped off here in Paris—it was impossible not to get the screaming mimis over how poorly informed the two candidates were—and what that says about the level of politico-historical awareness of the general public in the US.    more »