The nine-member commission will have access to presidential, diplomatic, military and intelligence archives, the French presidency says
French President Emmanuel Macron meets French representatives of the Ibuka association for the memory of Rwanda's genocide, on April 5 2019. Picture: AFP/PHILIPPE WOJAZER
“The goal is to deliver a report which will be published in two years time ... and will be accessible to all. It will scientifically evaluate, on the basis of archives, the role that France played in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994,” the presidency said. While Paris has acknowledged mistakes in its dealings with Rwanda, it has repeatedly dismissed accusations that it trained militias to take part in the massacre. However, during a visit to Rwanda in 2010, then president Nicolas Sarkozy, did acknowledge France made “a serious error of judgment, a sort of blindness when we didn’t foresee the genocidal dimensions of the government”.
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