Eventually, a Tutsi-led rebel army drove the genocidal Hutu regime from power.

He had been meeting with ICTR officials, and many thought he was to testify against high-ranking officials from the former Hutu regime.

A UK company, Mil-Tec Corporation Ltd, was involved in arms supplies to the Hutu regime at least from June 1993 to mid-July 1994.

Tutsi rebels, operating from bases in Uganda, succeeded in replacing the Hutu regime that year with what is essentially a military government.

Through the offices of the 'Cellule Africaine', a Presidential office headed by Mitterrand's son, Jean-Christophe, he provided the Hutu regime with financial and military support in the early 1990s.

France has been accused of aiding the Hutu regime to flee by creating Opération Turquoise.

The Akazu were relatives of Habyarimana's and others he knew from his Northern Rwanda district; they held important appointed positions of authority in the Hutu regime.

When the massacres stopped and the Hutu regime that sponsored them had been driven from power, Rwanda faced a task as least as complicated as mourning or forgetting - the task of justice.

She singles out "accomplices" like France, which, with an eye to preserving its dominance in the region, provided the murderous Hutu regime with arms, money and even protection (allegations France has denied).

Opération Turquoise is controversial for two reasons: accusations that it was a failed attempt to prop up the genocidal Hutu regime and that its mandate undermined the UNAMIR.