France opens archives on genocide as Rwanda remembers start of 1994 killings

France opens archives on genocide as Rwanda remembers start of 1994 killings
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07/04/2021 - 13:06
Members of the Ibuka France association lay flowers to mark the 27th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide at the Memory Garden in the Parc de Choisy in Paris. © AFP - Ludovic Marin
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France will open up a number of state archives covering the genocide in Rwanda, the government announced on Wednesday. The move comes as Kigali marks 27 years since the start of the mass killings on 7 April 1994 that saw some 800,000 people slaughtered.
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Archives detailing the work of then-French President François Mitterrand, as well as former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, will be made available to the public, according to a decree which became effective on Wednesday.

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