France President Emmanuel Macron apologized to Africans for the role of the country in the genocide of the Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994. Reports about it Reuters.
The French leader made a speech at the Memorial in the metropolitan city of Rwanda Kigali, where more than 250 thousand victims of the extermination of Tutsi were buried. “On this path, only those who went through that night may be able to give us for forgiveness,” he said.
Macron noted that France did not listen to warnings about the likely cutter in Rwanda and de facto supported the genocide regime. However, Paris was not an accomplice of bloody events in an African country, the president stressed.
May 16, 2020 in France detained a businessman Felisian Kabugu, who accused of involvement in the Tutsi genocide. The 84-year-old man of 26 years has hidden from justice and lived in the town of Annier-sur-Sen under someone else’s name. The main prosecutor of the country Serge Brarammer said that Kabugi’s arrest, which is considered one of the main sponsors of the genocide, is a “reminder that the perpetrators can be held accountable even 26 years after committing crimes.”
In 1994, there were massacres of the people of Tutsi in Rwanda. The genocide policy was planned by the country’s leaders and was supported by the army and civilian population. When Rwanda was a Belgian colony, the representatives of Tutsi actually managed the country. After the declaration of independence from the colonialists of the Hutu, which were represented by the ethnic majority, began to push the Tutsi from the leading political positions. The prerequisites for the extermination of Tutsi created a civil war between the Government of Hutu and the Rwandian Patriotic Front, which included most refugees Tutsi. The reason for the beginning of the massacre was the attack by the President of Rwanda Jewshenal Chabiaranians and President Burundi Siprien Nariamyir, in which the Tutsi accused.
According to the UN, more than 800 thousand people were killed during the acute phase of the conflict (about three months). The fact of the genocide towards Tutsi is recognized by the international community.