MACRON ASKS RWANDA TO FORGIVE FRANCE OVER 1994 GENOCIDE ROLE
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28.05.2021


BBC (27 May 2021)

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Rwandans to forgive France for its role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.

Speaking at the genocide memorial in Rwanda's capital Kigali, he said France had not heeded warnings of impending carnage and had for too long "valued silence over examination of the truth".

But France had not been an accomplice in the killings, Mr Macron added.

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