During a speech on Thursday, French president Emmanuel Macron said that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but had lacked the will to do so.
This statement comes as Rwanda prepares to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the killings, which lasted from 7 April 1994 until 15 July of that year.
Since 1994, the Rwandan government has accused France of ‘enabling’ the genocide.
In a statement released by Macron’s office, the president said that ‘France stands by Rwanda and the Rwandan people, in memory of the one million children, women and men martyred because they were born Tutsi’.
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