President Paul Kagame of Rwanda praised a new French report documenting France’s role in the 1994 genocide as “a good thing”, welcoming efforts in Paris to “move forward with a good understanding of what happened” 27 years after the massacres that shocked the world.
Mr Kagame spoke before dignitaries and others in an arena in the capital, Kigali, at the start of a week during which the central African country will commemorate the genocide.
“We welcome this (report),” Mr Kagame said, asserting that his government’s interpretation of the commission’s findings is that then-French leader Francois “Mitterrand knew that a genocide against the Tutsis was being planned by their allies in Rwanda” but continued “supporting them because he believed this was necessary for France’s geopolitical position”.
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