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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. The report, which The Associated Press has read, comes amid efforts by Rwanda to document the role of French authorities before, during, and after the genocide, part of the steps taken by France’s President Emmanuel Macron to improve relations with the central African country. The 600-page report says tha...

France was aware that a genocide was being prepared in Rwanda and bears “significant” responsibility for enabling the killings, according to a report published Monday by the Rwandan government. The report comes less than one month after a French report alleged that French authorities were “blind” to the preparations for the genocide but acknowledged officials responded too slowly to the killings. “The French government was neither blind nor unconscious about the foreseeable genocide” the Rwandan report by U.S. law firm Levy Firestone Muse said. In only a 100-day period between ...

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 for years in a bid for East African influence that later became instruments of the genocide. The Mus...

Rwanda genocide: Report blames France for 'enabling' the 1994 atrocity 19 Apr, 2021 08:38 PM 5 minutes to read The human remains of 50,000 people are buried at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial. Photo / AP The human remains of 50,000 people are buried at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial. Photo / AP AP By: Sylvie Corbet 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. The report comes am...

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-based law firm Levy Firestone Muse. France “did nothing to stop” the outbreak of violence agains...