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A very dark chapter of Rwanda History is the Genocide of the year 1994. This event has been told even via movies and books but none of them aptly captured the intense horror and death of the the genocide. And now a report from the Rwandan government is pointing fingers at France; stating that France played a huge role in the 1994 genocide.

According to Africanews, 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; as part of the steps taken by France’s President Emmanuel Macron to improve relations with the central African country.

1994 Genocide Report

The 600-page report says that France “did nothing to stop” the massacres; in April and May 1994, and in the years after the genocide tried to cover up its role and even offered protection to some perpetrators.

It was made on Monday after its formal presentation to Rwanda’s Cabinet.

It concludes that in years leading up to the 1994 genocide, former French President Francois Mitterrand and his administration had knowledge of preparations for the massacres; yet kept supporting the government of then-Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana despite the “warning signs.”

The Report

“The French government was neither blind nor unconscious about the foreseeable genocide,” the authors stress.

The Rwandan report comes less than a month after a French report, commissioned by Macron, concluded that French authorities had been; “blind”to the preparations for genocide and then reacted too slowly to appreciate the extent of the killings and to respond to them. It concluded that France had “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities” by not responding to the drift that led to the slaughter that killed mainly ethnic Tutsis and the moderate Hutus who tried to protect them. Groups of extremist Hutus carried out the killings.

The two reports, with their extensive even if different details; could mark a turning point in relations between the two countries.

Rwanda, a small but strategic country of 13 million people, is “ready” for a “new relationship” with France; Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta told AP.

“Maybe the most important thing in this process is that those two commissions have analyzed the historical facts; have analyzed the archives which were made available to them and have come to a common understanding of that past,” he said. “From there we can build this strong relationship.”

A top official in Macron’s office on Monday welcomed the report as a; “decisive step” which showed “the willingness expressed by Rwandan authorities; to write a shared history and, above all, to look to a common future.”

He also noted “unprecedented political trust” reached between Paris and Kigali as Rwandan officials have shown signs that they agree with the; “irreversible rapprochement approach” taken by France.

Macron is considering traveling to Rwanda in the coming months, said the official; who spoke anonymously in accordance with the French presidency’s policies.

The 1994 Genocide

The Rwandan report, commissioned in 2017 from the Washington law firm of Levy Firestone Muse; is based on a wide range of documentary sources from governments; non-governmental organizations and academics including diplomatic cables, documentaries, videos, and news articles. The authors also said they interviewed more than 250 witnesses.

In the years before the 1994 genocide; “French officials armed, advised, trained, equipped, and protected the Rwandan government, heedless of the Habyarimana regime’s commitment to the dehumanization and, ultimately, the destruction and death of Tutsi in Rwanda,” the report charges.

French authorities at the time pursued “France’s own interests; in particular the reinforcement and expansion of France’s power and influence in Africa.”

In April and May 1994, at the height of the genocide, French officials “did nothing to stop” the massacres, says the report.

French Millitary Intervention

Operation Turquoise, a French-led military intervention backed by the U.N. which started on June 22; “came too late to save many Tutsi,”the report says.

Authors say they found “no evidence that French officials or personnel participated directly in the killing of Tutsi during that period.”

This finding echoes the conclusion of the French report that cleared France of complicity in the massacres, saying that; “nothing in the archives” demonstrates a “willingness to join a genocidal operation.”

The Rwandan report also addressed the attitude of French authorities after the genocide.

A Report From Rwanda Has Blamed France For Enabling The 1994 Genocide
Names of the slaughtered

Over the past 27 years, “the French government has covered up its role, distorted the truth, and protected” those who committed the genocide, it says.

The report suggests that French authorities made “little efforts” to send to trial those who committed the genocide. Three Rwandan nationals have been convicted of genocide so far in France.

It also strongly criticizes the French government for not making public documents about the genocide. The government of Rwanda notably submitted three requests for documents in; 2019, 2020 and this year that the French government “ignored,” according to the report.

The French

Under French law, documents regarding military and foreign policies can remain classified for decades.

But things may be changing, the Rwandan report says, mentioning “hopeful signs.”

On April 7, the day of commemoration of the genocide; Macron announced the decision to declassify and make accessible to the public the archives from; 1990 to 1994 that belong to the French president and prime minister’s offices.

“Recent disclosures of documents in connection with the (French) report … may signal a move toward transparency,” authors of the Rwandan report said.

Paul Kagame

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda praised the report commissioned by Macron as; “a good thing,” welcoming efforts in Paris to “move forward with a good understanding of what happened.”

Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan long wanted for his alleged role in supplying machetes to the killers; was arrested outside Paris last May.

And in July an appeals court in Paris upheld a decision to end a years-long investigation; into the plane crash that killed Habyarimana and set off the genocide. That probe aggravated Rwanda’s government because it targeted several people close to Kagame for their alleged role, charges they denied.

Last week, a Rwandan priest was arrested in France for his alleged role in the genocide, which he denied.

Macron’s office said the French government is committed to provide the; “necessary means” to allow the “intensification” of legal proceedings against alleged perpetrators of the genocide. Activists estimate more than 100 of them are believed to live on French territory.

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