Trio of them:
"French court finds Rwandan ex-intelligence chief guilty in 1994 genocide" Associated Press March 15, 2014
PARIS — A Paris court delivered France’s first-ever conviction for genocide Friday, sentencing a Rwandan former intelligence chief to 25 years in prison over the 1994 killings of at least 500,000 people in the African country.
The landmark trial of 54-year-old Pascal Simbikangwa sets off what could be the first of dozens of French trials into one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities — two decades after it happened.
Not that I'm trying to minimize it, but French authorities were up to their elbows in that bush. That, and the fact that war crimes charges are only delivered to recalcitrant leaders or Africans they have turned upon is not lost on me either. I guess it's one reason among many that I've tired of reading my jew$media.
In a late-night verdict after 5 ½ weeks on trial, he was found guilty of genocide and complicity to crimes against humanity. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Simbikangwa’s lawyers would appeal.
While the French government wasn’t on trial, critics say France was too supportive of the Rwandan government and for too long turned a blind eye to the genocide.
Simbikangwa proclaimed his innocence and insisted he never saw any of the bodies that littered the country’s roads and towns at the time.
In his final appeal to the jury Friday morning, Simbikangwa insisted that the ‘‘authenticity of my innocence needs no more proof.’’
Prosecution and defense lawyers noted the seminal nature of the trial, the first in which a French court has decided a case of genocide.
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Related: Rwanda Stories Stink
So did the Globe's trial coverage.
Something else stinking in France:
"Parisians warned of air pollution" New York Times Syndicate March 15, 2014
PARIS — Parisians taking public transportation to work Friday were surprised to find subways and buses free for the next three days, but the reason was ominous: Air pollution had reached an unusually high level and was expected to continue unabated through the weekend.
In this capital where strict limits on building height create the illusion of plenty of fresh air, pollution is rarely this severe so early in the year and for so long.
Didn't John Kerry just hold meetings in Paris?
“Due to a persistent episode of pollution with fine particles,” the Environment Ministry will impose exceptional measures, Philippe Martin, the minister, said Thursday. His widely reported message left some people a little unsure exactly what he meant....
Although people became broadly aware of the problem late this week, it has been building for days as a high-pressure system over the region created a string of sunny days with little wind, cold nights, and warm days that left pollutants trapped.
How long can you hold your breath?
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Also see: Soldiers killed in WWI reburied
Around 200 people, some from as far away as Australia, turned out for the hourlong ceremony. Many were history buffs who’d heard about the ceremony on the website of the Western Front Association, a historical society.
I've noticed a lot of World War articles in my paper lately, almost as iof the agenda-pu$hing pos is trying to prepare us for something soon to come.
While I'm at it, there is also this other brief regarding what I notice is so prominent in my war paper day after day after day. They tell me he was "inspired."
