French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide and but lacked the will to do so. Macron’s office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide.
FILE-French President Emmanuel Macron speaks next to the visitor’s book at the genocide memorial site in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 27, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.” Macron’s office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide.
In the video, Macron says that “France, which could have stopped the genocide with its Western and African allies, lacked the will to do so.”in the genocide that left over 800,000 people dead, mainly ethnic Tutsis and the Hutus who tried to protect them. In Sunday’s video, Macron will recall that when the genocide started, “the international community had the means to know and to take actions” based on the knowledge about genocides that had been revealed by survivors of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, his office said.
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