Rwanda: France Declassifies Elysee Documents On Rwanda Genocide

France has decided to declassify documents relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Relations between the two countries remain strained over Kigali's claim that Paris played an indirect role in the atrocity.

News agencies cited sources close to French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday who said that the Elysee Palace documents to be declassified were from the years between 1990 and 1995, when the Socialist, Francois Mitterand, was in office.

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