Were the French implicated in one of this century's worst genocides? This Panorama special reveals the untold story of how France'sattemptto increase its influence in Africa contributed to the murder of over half a million Rwandans.
It reveals the true extent of French covert mihtary assistance to the Rwandan government between and 1994, despite evidence that at the heart of the regime was the murderous Network Zero. "In a day it would have been overifthe French hadn't been there," a Legionnaire says about attempts to defend the French-speaking government in Rwanda. Steve Bradshaw reports. Producer David Harrison ; Editor Steve Hewlett