Kigali,Rwanda — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday recognized his country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as the two countries seek to turn the page on decades of diplomatic tensions over the bloodshed.
While Macron did not formally apologize, he highlighted how France had backed the genocidal Hutu regime of the time, ignored warnings of impending massacres, and joined the world in abandoning some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans to a grisly fate.
“Standing here today, with humility and respect, by your side, I have come to recognize our responsibilities,” Macron said in a speech at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
He said that only those who had survived the horror…
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