PARIS — A commission of historians will after two years work on Friday submit to President Emmanuel Macron a potentially explosive report scrutinizing the role played by France over Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, sources said.
Two sources aware of its publication, who asked not to be named, told AFP it would be handed over to Macron in the afternoon.
There have long been claims that France, then ruled by President Francois Mitterrand, did not do enough to halt the massacres that left at least 800,000 people dead, mainly among the Tutsi ethnic minority, and was even complicit in the crimes.
The issue still poisons modern relations a quarter of a century on between France and Rwand…
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