A 500 pages report issued by the government of Rwanda points out to the responsibility of France in the 1994 genocide, which has cost nearly a MILLION lives in ONE month.
France has supported, armed, and shielded the Interahamwe, the army-based group of genocidaires who turned their supporters into bloody killing machines against their Tutsi compatriots. France has, of course, never admitted to any wrongdoing - Alain Juppe, former foreign minister, said that France's role was "an action we should be proud of" and hid behind its reputation as a Human Rights upholding country. Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner refused to apologise.
Now, however, France is under the spotlight. Again. I hope something will come out of it...
Read this article for a good analysis of the situation.
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