Andrew Wallis - Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of Frances Role in the Rwandan Genocide

AEMG

Autorisations dexportation de Matriels de Guerre. An export licence the French Ministry of Defence gave for arms shipments

AFP

Agence France-Presse

Akazu

Literally little house or inner circle around Madame Habyarimana, which became a meeting point for Hutu power extremists and the planning group behind the genocide

APC

armoured personnel carrier

bourgmestre

local government leader in charge of a commune or district. There were 229 communes

CDR

Coalition pour la Dfense de la Rpublique. A

CEA

Central and Eastern Africa

CEPGL

Communaut conomique des Pays des Grands Lacs

CIEEMG

Commission interministrielle pour ltude des exportations des matriels de guerre. French commission that gave official sales notice to arms exports

CNN

Cable News Network. American news channel

CRAP

Commandos de Recherche et dAction en Profondeur. Elite reconnaissance/special forces unit based within French regiments

DAMI

Dtachement dassistance militaire et dinstruction. French military training and assistance troops based in Rwanda from late 1980s to instruct Habyarimanas army

DGSE

Direction gnrale de la Scurit extrieure. French external secret service comparable to British MI6

DPKO

Department of Peacekeeping Operations (United Nations)

DST

Direction de la surveillance du territoire. French interior secret services

EICA

Escadron dIntervention des Commandos de lAir

ETO

cole technique officielle. Technical school run by priests near Kigali and massacre site after UN and French troops pulled out in April 1994

EU

European Union

EUC

end user certificate needed for arms shipments

FAL

fusil automatique lger light automatic rifle

FAR

Forces armes rwandaises. Rwandan government army

FIDH

Fdration internationale des ligues des droits de lhomme (international human rights federation)

FMLN

Farabundo Mart para la Liberacin Nacional

GIGN

Groupe dIntervention de la Gendarmerie nationale. French police anti-terrorist branch

IBUKA

Rwandan association of genocide survivors

ICTR

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Based in Arusha, Tanzania, set up under UN auspices to judge the main organizers of the genocide

IFRI

Institut Franais des Relations Internationales

Impuzamugambi

Those who have the same goal. CDR youth militia involved in the genocide

inkotanyi

those who fight bravely. Term often used for RPF, but with older monarchical connotations

Interahamwe

Those who work together. MRND youth militia and leading participant in the genocide policy

inyenzi

cockroaches. Nickname given to Tutsis in 1959 with a view to dehumanizing them

IRIN

Integrated Regional Information Networks

MAM

Military Assistance Mission. French military campaign in Rwanda

MilOb

military observer

MRND(D)

Mouvement rpublicain national pour la dmocratie (et le dveloppement). Habyarimanas political party implicated in the genocide

MSF

Mdicins Sans Frontires. French medical aid agency

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NGO

non-governmental organization

NRA

National Resistance Army. Formed in 1981 by later Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, a rebel group that fought to overthrow Miltons Obotes regime

OAU

Organization of African Unity. Umbrella body of African nations

ORINFOR

Office Rwandais dinformation

PSD

Parti socialiste dmocratique (Democratic Socialist Party) Rwandan opposition party

RDP

Rgiment des dragons parachutistes

RGF

Rwandan Government Forces (also known as FAR)

RPA

Rwandese Patriotic Army. National army formed from RPF after its victory in 1994 military wing of RPF

RPF

Rwandese Patriotic Front. Mainly Tutsi guerrilla army that fought against the Habyarimana regime

RPIMA

Rgiment parachutiste de linfanterie de marine (dAssaut). Regular army parachute regiments that served in Rwanda from late 1980s

RPR

Rassemblement Pour la Rpublique. French rightwing political party