French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday recognised his country's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, from backing a genocidal regime to ignoring warnings of the impending massacres.
The East African
Thursday May 27 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron looks at the images of victims on display during his visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where some 250,000 victims of the massacres are buried, in Kigali, Rwanda on May 27, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday recognised his country s role in the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, as Rwanda and France seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed.
While Macron did not formally apologise, he highlighted how France had backed the genocidal Hutu regime of the time, ignored warnings of impending massacres and joined the world in abandoning some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans to a grisly fate.
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