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April 20, 2021 02:07:12 pm The French government bears significant responsibility for enabling the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, according to a Monday report from the Rwandan government. The report was commissioned by the Rwandan government in 2017 and compiled by Robert Muse of the Washington, DC, law firm of Levy Firestone Muse. While the report acknowledges French humanitarian intervention after the genocide began, it argues the French government “helped build and fortify” Rwandan institutions ...

Commissioned by the Rwandan government, the report offers a “damning perspective on the events” that led to the murders of around 800,000 people over 100 days between April and July 1994, says The New York Times (NYT). The government in Paris was a “collaborator” of the extremist Hutu-majority government that orchestrated the killings and remained “unwavering in its support” even though officials knew the mass slaughter was being planned, claim the report authors, from Washington-...

France knew Rwanda was fomenting violence against Tutsis, report says For many years, French supported the ‘corrupt and murderous regime’ of President Juvenal Habyarimana, the new report says 20 April 2021 - 18:15 Saul Butera Participants arrive at a night vigil during a commemoration ceremony marking the Rwandan genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. File photoi: REUTERS/BAZ RATNER France bears significant responsibility for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, as it facilitated former ...