[RwandaLibre] France-Rwanda: Former French FM denies French involvement in Rwanda genocide

 

France-Rwanda: Former French FM denies French involvement in Rwanda genocide

06 April 2014
France's ex-foreign minister Bernard Kouchne
RFI

France's former foreign affairs minister Bernard Kouchner denied
Rwandan President Paul Kagame's charge of French "direct
participation" in the 1994 genocide, speaking to RFI in Kigali. But
Rwanda's foreign minister called on Paris to face up to the "difficult
truth" ahead of Monday's cermonies marking the 20th anniversary of the
atrocities.

By RFI

"You can accused France of a lot when it comes to political errors
that have been made, on they way things happened ... but 'direct
participation'? I don't think so," Kouchner, who as foreign minister
under President Nicolas Sarkozy started a thaw in relations between
the two countries, said when interviewed by RFI in Kigali.

In an interview published ahead of the commemoration, Kagame renewed
longstanding accusations that French forces played an active role in
the slaughter that preceded his Rwandan Patriotic Front coming to
power.

France responded by calling off Justice Minister Christiane Taubira's
participation in the ceremonies.

On Sunday Rwanda's Foreign Affairs Minister Mushikiwabo declared it
"impossible for our two countries to move forward if the condition is
that Rwanda has to forget its history in order to get along with
France".

"For our two countries to really start getting along, we will have to
face the truth, the truth is difficult, the truth of being close to
anybody who is associated with genocide understandably is a very
difficult truth to accept," she told reporters.

The French boycott was an "overreaction", she said.

"I don't think the French people in general should be held in
ignorance of what some French officials did in this country," she
added. "Specific individuals in the military and the politics did some
very wrong things in this country."

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