the Rwanda genocide and the catholic church (III)

The mystique of the genocide is clearly demonstrated in a broadcast by the Rwanda radio station Milles Collines: Those people, (the Tutsi) really are a dirty race. I do not know how God will be able to help us to exterminate them. We must get rid of them.. this is the only solution.... God will be on our side and Jesus will help us to win. Those of you at the front (???) be strong, Our Lady (Mary) is with us.". Jesus is "the Christ of the Hutu".

Was it this kind of mysticism that prompted the white fathers to display such a great amount of zeal in making the religious genocidaires look innocent. First of all the white fathers together with a couple of organisations in france had managed to get the two nuns from Sovu out of Rwanda. Lateron the belgian white father Comblin went to Rwanda, to the Sovu benedictines convent, to ask the sisters there who were willing to testify against sisters Gertrude and Kizito to retract. He wanted them to sign a paper in wich they declared they had given false testimonies. Fortunately the sisters had the courage to tell him to go to blazes (my words!!).The Rwandan police could lay their hands on the reverend Comblin's documents. The Rwandan Goverment threw him out.
This Comblin had "worked" in Burundi where he was notorious for his anti-Tutsi agitations. One of these sisters who had stood up against Comblin later testified how she was subjected to pressure by sister Gertrude and the abbot of the benedictine abbey of Maredsous near Namur (reported by Le soir on May 15 2001).
The belgian tribunal got a letter by a catholic priest Nicolaus, in which he pointed out that the attorney of the Rwandan state, Beauthier, was "a suspect character, who displays a great deal of anti-patriotism and his nihilistic leftism....who insults the whole catholic church and the Pope..we therefore claim that this trial is a tric, a grand comedy, originating from the free-masons and notorious ennemies of the church".
And the white father Guy Theunis in the magazine Dialogue: "I do not believe the accusation that priests were participating in the genocide. What is clear is that a number of hutu priests have ventilated opinions disagreeable to the RPF. They have a right to have their opnions"
On April 2 2004 African Rights wrote another open letter to Pope John Paul II: "since our last letter to you numerous goverments and institutions have set up public enquiries into their reactions to the genocide, and have, at least a great deal of them, admitted their mistakes and have offered their apologies for it. We are unable to imagine why the catholic church has not started an examination of conscience and has refused to identify those members of the clergy who have not done their duty as christians." Again there was no reply.
A former student at the major seminary that was run by the white fathers makes mention of the racism there that even went so far as to blackball those european priests, fellow-white fathers, who did not share their racist ideas. He mentions the case of father Robert Defalque, marginalised and treated with disdain as a "gatutsi"
by his confreres. The torch of those white fathers has since been taken over by their confrere Jault at Lyon, who refuses to acknowledge there ever was a genocide and in stead speaks of a "civil war" and of "the events of 1994".