The planning and intention of the 6 April missile strike are really quite clear when one blows away the academic smoke that obscures the details of the narrative.  E.g., as the writer states, the shoot-down occurred ".. . . as the jet approached Kigali’s airport AFTER PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN TANZANIA."  Though generally correct, the statement promotes the misconception that the flight originated in Arusha, Tanzania, site of the Arusha Peace negotiations.  In fact, the Hutu presidents were returning from DAR-ES-SALAAM, where an ad hoc conference on regional security had been called by Uganda's Museveni, Kagame's godfather, and principal anglo-phone agent in the secret wars over the French Pré carré.  Museveni had hoped to gather all his regional adversaries in that single plane (Mobutu was tipped off by his security chief Honoré Ngbanda and bailed). This was the set up.  Then after the plane went down, the RPF launched its final military offensive to seize State power. Hence, 'genocide'.