Why France has opened its archives on the Rwandan genocide
Why France has opened its archives on the Rwandan genocide President Emmanuel Macron’s legacy could yet include a brave reckoning with his country’s recent past. Andrew Renneisen / Getty Images A ceremony to remember the victims of the Rwandan genocide in Kigali, the country's capital, in 2019. Twenty-seven years ago last week, on 6 April 1994, a plane carrying the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart was shot down over Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The assassination was the trigger for the Rwandan genocide, during which around 800,0...
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