Some months earlier, in December 1993, predictions that Belgian UN peacekeepers would be murdered had been made to the Belgian journalist and expert on the Great Lakes region, Colette Braeckman. Braeckman, who was in Kigali on the night of the presidential assassination, heard that the wife of one of the three French crew members on the presidential Falcon jet who telephoned the French embassy for information was told that Belgians were responsible for the attack on the plane. It was an accusation levelled at the ten Belgian peacekeepers by their killers as they hopelessly fought for their
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