France pulls out of Rwanda genocide commemorations
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The French government has announced that it is pulling out of the 20th anniversary commemorations on Monday for the Rwandan genocide.
The decision follows an accusation by the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, that France participated in the mass killings in 1994.
Speaking to the French-language weekly news magazine Jeune Afrique, Mr Kagame denounced the "direct role of Belgium and France in the political preparation for the genocide". Rwanda was a Belgian colony until 1962.
A Rwandan commission in 2008 said France was aware of preparations for the genocide and helped train ethnic Hutu militias who participated in killings.
Paris said its forces helped protect civilians as part of a UN-mandated intervention in Rwanda. But Mr Kagame said French troops had protected the militias carrying out the killings.
So Belgium and France played a major role in the genocide in Rwanda? I honestly assumed it was just an ongoing civil war that also involved Uganda and the Congo.
What else is new for Africa though? The white man STAYS stripping every ounce of sovereignty that continent has left.
So Belgium and France played a major role in the genocide in Rwanda? I honestly assumed it was just an ongoing civil war that also involved Uganda and the Congo.
What else is new for Africa though? The white man STAYS stripping every ounce of sovereignty that continent has left.
not only they did directly, but also indirectly by creating the artificial divide of Hutu and Tutsi and giving all the power to the Tutsi so that the Hutu ended up hating them
honestly