‘According to UN officials, 800,000 men, women and children were massacred in Rwanda in the space of 100 days in 1994, the fastest genocide in human history. Several countries, including Albania and Uganda, provided arms to the Forces Armées Rwandaises (the former Rwandese Armed Forces) who perpetrated crimes against humanity during the genocide, despite a UN embargo on the sale of weapons to the central African nation.
In 2004, Yair Auron, an Israeli historian at Israel’s Open University, called for a probe into Israel’s arms sales to Rwanda during April of 1994. Auron, who has spent over 20 years researching Israeli attitudes towards the genocide of other peoples, claimed he had photographs and documents showing that Israeli arms dealers provided Rwandan forces with bullets, rifles and grenades captured from Egypt during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Israel has denied the claims.
In 2014 a request by Auron and human rights attorney Eitay Mack that Israel’s Ministry of Defence make public files on arms exports to Rwanda in 1994 was denied on the grounds that revealing the information might “harm Israel’s state security and foreign relations”.’
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