Editor's note: on Thursday Feb. 4, 2010, the Uganda Record published a WORLD EXCLUSIVE report based on the narration of an eye-witness and member of the RPF intelligence team that shot down the Rwandan presidential jet on April 6, 1994.

A source has written in to back up our story with his own angle and evidence on the United National man who helped the RPF coordinate the missile attack in which two heads of state and a French air crew died. Below is his account:

I've verified the name.

That's Francoir, pronounced-Furanswa and he worked as a driver with UNHCR. Francoir lived in Kicukiro near Gikondo. He was tall, with a thick moustache, chain smoker and always smiling.

Between November 1990 and April 1991, I used to meet Francoir on weekends in the afternoon (4:30pm) at the American embassy with the help of a security guard called Mugabo when everyone was gone home and it was only the three of us.

What was funny is that next door was the Military Police and we used to laugh about it. We always sat in the lawn by the ambassador's office window, as it had a very high wall between the embassy and military police next door, we would smoke marijuana.

We spoke Swahili. Francoir spoke Kirundi Swahili while Mugabo spoke Congolese Swahili.

Later at night we would then meet outside Nyamirambo stadium where we used to have a good view of planes landing at Kanombe International Airport. Mugabo always suggested the downing of Sabena [Airlines] planes with AK-47 [ifles] and Francoir would interrupt and say "No, you need a missile."

I then asked him if he would shoot down Habyarimana's plane, he would say "Of course", but it would need an expert. I then suggested that some Inkotanyi (RPA fighters) had acquired artillery training and would be the best for the job.

I did pass on the details of the conversation to Afande Jackson Rwahama via a
contact in the Tanzanian embassy.

Why I say it's the same Francoir is because he's the only UN driver with all his
family in Burundi that lived in Kicukiro, drove a blue Toyota Hilux single cabin
pick-up and always had the habit of asking you to walk whenever he almost got near
roadblocks on Avenue de Republique.

Also "Water Melon" managing to escape and walking to St. Famie Church is another evidence. St. Famie Church was behind the UNHCR by the round-about of avenue de Republique and Francoir always went there nearly every day to drop internally
displaced people.

They were always two main roadblocks one between avenue de Republique and Boulevard de la paix. The second roadblock on the junction of avenue de Republique by the military police and avenue du Roi Baudouin towards the parliament.

Yes, I can see them walking on a hill-climb off Boulevard de l'OUA and on to Rue de
Ntaruka were they bumped into the rear of the roadblock. It's also very possible that
"Water Melon" managed to escape, because anyone behind at a distance could easily
escape and enter St. Famie Church.

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Note: Based on this new evidence, the Uganda Record has modified its story on the shooting down of the Rwandan presidential jet to substitute the name "Francior" for the term "UN man" or "UN official" which our original report used for the UN man, whose name our source "Water Melon" did not know.