This posed most controversial to the Hutu government and caused further civil war.
Virtually no one thought that the rebels would achieve a military victory over the Hutu government, certainly not so rapidly, if at all.
A critic of the Hutu government in place when the 1994 killings began, he led a movement for multiparty democracy.
The Hutu government states there were about 50,000 deaths, the majority being Tutsis.
The Hutu government succeeded in killing 75% of the Tutsi population.
The radio report was interpreted as an attempt by the Hutu Government to justify the killings.
He has close ties to the former Hutu Government in Rwanda.
The French were the major backers of the former Hutu Government, providing it with military training and arms in its final years.
The Hutu Government had not treated him well.
But there were suspicions that France hoped to save the Hutu Government from defeat.