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)
Rwanda says France bears responsibility for enabling 1994 genocide Reuters 2 hrs ago
By Clement Uwiringiyimana
KIGALI, April 19 (Reuters) - France was aware that a genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the 1994 killings and the French government bore a significant responsibility for enabling it, the Rwandan government said in a report published on Monday.
Between April and July of 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority but also some Hutus. The message of the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister today is a key step in getting our two countries closer, a French presidential advisor told reporters on Monday in response to the Rwandan report.
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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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