Genocide “revisionists” out to discredit government

Mutaboba also stated that the UNITA sanctions report was part of a “pattern of efforts to discredit” Rwanda’s government and leaders, the statement said. A recent article in Canada’s ‘National Post’ newspaper “fits the same pattern,” he said. The ‘National Post’ article implicated the RPF in the downing of an aircraft in 1994, which killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Mutaboba said the “disinformation” was the work of “revisionists” supporting and harbouring genocide criminals, adding that “confusion” over the existence of a UN report cited as the source of the newspaper article “might or might not be deliberate”.

Responding to a reporter’s question about the existence of the alleged UN report on the downing of the aircraft, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard on Friday said he had previously referred journalists to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), “but the Tribunal has refused to comment on a leaked document”.