Rwanda: France Opens Archives On Genocide As Rwanda Remembers Start of 1994 Killings

France will open up a number of state archives covering the genocide in Rwanda, the government announced on Wednesday. The move comes as Kigali marks 27 years since the start of the mass killings on 7 April 1994 that saw some 800,000 people slaughtered.

Archives detailing the work of then-French President François Mitterrand, as well as former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, will be made available to the public, according to a decree which became effective on Wednesday.

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