Apr 19, 2021
In this 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. A report commissioned by the Rwandan government due to be made public today 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. (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.
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Rwanda report said France bears responsibility for enabling the 1994 genocide
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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.