By Press Association 2021
The names of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge are written on a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda
The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide”, a report commissioned by the Rwandan government has concluded about France’s role before and during the horror in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in 1994.
The report, which the Associated Press (AP) has read, comes amid efforts by Rwanda to document the role of French authorities before, during and after the genocide, part of the steps taken by France’s President Emmanuel Macron to improve relations with the central African country.
FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church, are laid out on shelves in an underground vault as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Nyamata, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
FILE - In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1994 file photo, a French soldier holds up a line of Rwandan refugees as they prepare to cross into Bukavu, in then Zaire on August 15, 1994. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
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FILE – In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. Felicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who had a $5 million bounty on his head, has been arrested in Paris, authorities said Saturday, May 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
PARIS (AP) The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes about France’s role before and during the horror in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in 1994.
Rwanda report blames France for “enabling” the 1994 genocide
The 600-page report says that France did nothing to stop the massacres, in April and May 1994, and in the years after the genocide tried to cover up its role and even offered protection to some perpetrators.
By Mansoor| Updated: 19th April 2021 7:32 pm IST A Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel walks by the the site of an April 6 plane crash which killed Rwandas President Juvenal Habyarimana in Kigali, Rwanda. A report commissioned by the Rwandan government due to be made public on Monday, April 19, 2021 concludes that the French government bears significant responsibility for enabling a foreseeable genocide that left more than 800,000 dead in 1994 and that that France did nothing to stop the massacres. (Source: PTI)