French Report on Genocide Leaves 'Bitter Taste' For Rwandans
Rwanda activists have saluted the French government's efforts but pressed on with their demand that genocide suspects living in the European country be brought to justice. The Yolande Mukagasana Foundation insists that the report published by a historical commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron "does not give enough explanation and leaves them with a bitter taste because it does not admit complicity". The French government failed to help stop the 1994 Rwanda genocide and holds responsibility for an inability to see preparations for the killing, according to the report. Paris was not complicit in the killings, according to the commission, led by historian Vincent Duclert, but does hold considerable responsibility for the genocide, which started when Rwanda's Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down. The geonicide claimed the lives of some 800,000 people in the massacre, mainly ethnic Tutsi, but also moderate Hutus.
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Rwanda:
Activists React to French Report on Tutsi Genocide
New Times, 30 March 2021
The recently released report by a team commissioned by the French government to probe the latter's role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, does not give enough explanation and… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Report Flags France's 'Damning' Role in Genocide
Legalbrief, 29 March 2021
France bears the burden of 'heavy and damning responsibilities' in the Rwandan genocide, but was not complicit in the slaughter. That's according to the findings of an official… Read more »
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Rwanda:
France Failed to Help Stop Rwandan Genocide - Macron-Ordered Report
RFI, 26 March 2021
The French government failed to help stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide and holds responsibility for an inability to see preparations for the killing, according to a report published… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Genocide - Covid-19 Stirs Anxiety Among Genocide Survivors Ahead of Commemoration
New Times, 26 March 2021
Two weeks before the world commemorates the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi for the 27th time, survivor organisations say that they have already started treating psycho-trauma… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Genocide Survivors Cite Spike in Mental Illnesses, Covid-19 Blamed
New Times, 4 February 2021
Almost a year since Rwanda confirmed its first Covid-19 case, mental health experts in organisations of the survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi say that mental illness… Read more »
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Emmanuel Macron (file photo).